Boris Johnson defends Google
Google is due to pay £130m extra in a decade’s worth of back taxes to the UK. The Mayor of London, however, defended Google in his column for the Daily Telegraph on Monday.
Johnson claimed that it is the manager’s job to pay as little tax as possible within the law.
He wrote: “It is absurd to blame the company for ‘not paying their taxes’. You might as well blame a shark for eating seals. It is the nature of the beast; and not only is it the nature of the beast – it is the law it is the fiduciary duty of their finance directors to minimize tax exposure.”
The Mayor of London further explained that the companies have legal obligations to their shareholders, not to public opinion or to politicians.
Boris Johnson is a known advocate of the tech sector. He recently launched a cam