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Australian Govt Pledges Action On Google Tax Evasion
daria42 writes "Looks like Google's habit of funneling billions of dollars in revenue through its Irish and Bermuda subsidiaries continues to attract unfavorable government attention globally. France has already announced plans to take on the search giant's tax evasion habits, and the Australian Government, to which Google paid just $74,000 in tax last year despite having Australian revenues close to $1 billion, has now confirmed plans to do the same."
If so, then loads of prior art. MS, IBM, GE, etc come quickly to mind.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Just to be clear it isn't only Google that's implicated in this, the summary is probably just a typical attempt at defaming just Google by the usual culprits (i.e. Microsoft shills). That's not to defend Google in this, there's no doubt they're in the wrong, but most well known US multi-nationals are guilty of the exact same thing - some even more so. In the UK the companies exposed for this have included Amazon, Apple, Starbucks, and many others.
Avoidance is merely evasion that has not yet been shown to be illegal.
Is English your native language?
What's your point? Regardless of whether the words "evasion" and "avoidance" are synonymous or similar in general usage, the distinction between "tax evasion" and "tax avoidance" as referring to illegal and legal activities respectively is widely accepted and standard terminology.
If you don't know this, perhaps it says more about *your* ignorance of the language.
If you can stop with the tears and name calling for just a moment, you'll find plenty here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_States