{"id":220619,"date":"2016-02-01T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=220619"},"modified":"2016-02-01T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T15:54:09","slug":"cameron-pressure-google-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/cameron-pressure-google-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron under pressure over Google deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Pressure is mounting on British Prime Minister David Cameron over a back tax deal agreed by Internet group Google.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a hot debate in the parliament, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn challenged Cameron to defend the deal, which he said represented a tax rate of just 3 percent on 6 billion pounds ($8.5 billion) of profits that Google, now part of holding company Alphabet Inc, has earned in Britain since\u00a02005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why is there one rule for big multinational companies and\u00a0another for ordinary small businesses and self-employed\u00a0workers?&#8221;, he asked the prime minister in his weekly\u00a0parliamentary question session.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron did not comment on the 130 million pound settlement but said he had been genuinely angry over Google&#8217;s failure to pay much tax, adding that this largely occurred when Labour was in power from 1997 to 2010.\u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;ve done more on tax evasion and tax avoidance than\u00a0Labour ever did,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Finance minister George Osborne has said the settlement was &#8220;a victory for\u00a0the action we&#8217;ve taken&#8221; against corporate profit-shifting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/01\/27\/447590\/Cameron-under-pressure-over-Google-deal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure is mounting on British Prime Minister David Cameron over a back tax deal agreed by Internet group Google. During a hot debate in the parliament, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn challenged Cameron to defend the deal, which he said represented a tax rate of just 3 percent on 6 billion pounds ($8.5 billion) of profits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}