The Big Shortfall: how UK taxpayers are cheated by business lobbyists | Simon Jenkins

We have a chancellor who can describe as a ‘major success’ just 130m in back taxes paid by Google. It has to be one of the biggest sweetheart deals of all time

What’s wrong with big business all of a sudden? The latest revelations of malpractice at Tesco, Sports Direct and Volkswagen are now capped by Google’s grand larceny of British taxpayers. There is of course “no wrongdoing”, that motto of modern business. But Google executives are behaving like medieval penitents, wandering Europe’s conf...