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A row breaks out over Google's payment of ?130 million | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The sum covers money Google owed since 2005. | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
The Chancellor said it vindicated the Government's approach to tax. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
A mammoth snowfall in the eastern United States leaves at least 11 | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
people dead and paralyses road and rail links. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Calls tonight for an independent investigation, after allegations | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
that Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service tried to cover | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
up evidence of corruption amongst some officers. | :00:34. | :00:42. | |
And Johanna Konta joins Andy Murray in the last 16 | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
of the Australian Open, the first British woman to go | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
A row has broken out in Westminster over Google's deal with the tax | :00:48. | :01:12. | |
authorities to pay ?130 million in retrospective tax | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Labour called the sum "derisory" and they want it investigated | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
But the Chancellor, George Osborne, said the deal was a vindication | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
Here's our business correspondent, Joe Lynam. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
OK, Google, how much tax does Google play in Britain? | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Google's tax affairs are quite a popular search item in the UK, | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
especially now it's agreed to pay ?130 million of back taxes to HMRC, | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
but there are some who feel that's a fraction of what should | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
I've been campaigning on this issue for the last 15 years. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Under the last Government and this Government, | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
But, to be frank, it looks as though what independent assessors have | :01:57. | :02:06. | |
said, this is only paying about 3% of tax. | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
Most corporations are paying 20%, ordinary individuals are paying much | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
So, I think, most people will just think it's unfair. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
Google enjoyed sales of ?4.6 billion in the UK in 2014. | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Under normal circumstances, companies would have paid 21% tax | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Because Google routes its UK sales via Ireland and then | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
on to the Caribbean, it pays much less each year | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
than this ?130 million tax deal, which covers a decade of accounts. | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
So does Google now accept it had been paying too little? | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
We were applying the rules as there were, that was then. | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Now we're going to be applying the new rules, | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
which means we will be paying more tax. | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
Britain accounts for 10% of Google's total sales but only a sliver | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Is getting the company to pay more tax merely an effort | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
When I became Chancellor, there were some companies that paid | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
That rightly caused a lot of public anger. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Now we have companies like Google paying tax, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
and I want the message to go out that in Britain, | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
taxes are low, but they have to be paid and I expect more companies | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Apple - the world's largest company, Amazon - | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
the biggest online retailer, Starbucks - the number-one coffee | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
franchise, are all under the spotlight. | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Facebook paid only ?4,000 in UK corporation taxes last year. | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
It may take a while to close the book on creative tax | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Let's join our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed, who led with the story | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
and who's at the World Economic Forum in Davos. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
How fair is the criticism of the deal? | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
Well, Rita, I rather difficult to talk about | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
fairness, a rather subjective word, when you're talking about | :03:59. | :03:59. | |
fairness, a rather subjective word, when you're talking about tax law. I | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
suppose Google always thought to itself it might get a bit of | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
criticism after making this announcement last night. HMRC | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
probably similar. Probably Google of course -- the problem with Google is | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
that it makes billions of pounds of profit all over the world. So ?130 | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
million doesn't seem like that much. It's the kind of figure it might pay | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
senior executives over the same amount of time. Google, when it | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
comes to fairness, might point out a couple of things, though. It is an | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
American company. That means it is taxed in America. That's where it | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
pays the majority of its tax. That would be the same in fact for any | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
British business operating abroad. British businesses pay most of their | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
tax in the UK. That's how the global tax system works. Google, of course, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
also operates in the European Union, out of London. That means it is | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
allowed to head quarter in Dublin, where the taxes are far lower. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
That's part of the EU single market. No laws broken there. Also the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
question is, it's not just Google that is facing controversy over the | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
issue of tax. Amazon, Facebook, Starbucks would probably finish | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Google with one point, 2014 Google paid over ?20 million of corporation | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
tax to HMRC in that same year. Facebook paid ?4,000. A question of | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
fairness, Google might point to those numbers and say there's quite | :05:25. | :05:25. | |
a difference. Many thanks. Emergencies have been | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
declared in 11 US states, by a huge blizzard, | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
in which at least 11 Parts of the eastern United States | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
have received as much as 28 inches Road, rail and air travel has been | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
paralysed, and tens of millions Our correspondent, Laura Bicker, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
is in Washington. Laura, how much worse is it likely | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
to get? I think that's the question many people are trying to ask. Here | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
we are, 30 hours in, and we're still in blizzard-like conditions. As for | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the amount of snowfall, at Dulles airport, we had over 23 inches of | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
snow. In Virginia over 30 inches. These are near record-breaking | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
amounts and still it continues to fall. | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
The battle has begun as this blizzard enters its final hours, | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
there are attempts to try to clear-up to two feet of snow | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
In New York, where the snow's been worse than forecast, | :06:33. | :06:42. | |
All travel is now banned in the city. | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
If you drive on the roads, you'll be arrested. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
People have to heed these warnings now and immediately get home | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
and again the NYPD will enforce this travel ban. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
In New Jersey, the fight Waz against flooding. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Freezing waters from a high tide, not seen since Hurricane | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Sandy, flowed into seaside resorts and thousands lost power. | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
Airports along the east coast felt abandoned as over 7,000 flights | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
were cancelled and those who tried to drive struggled. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
In Kentucky, 3,000 cars were stuck on a motorway for hours. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
There were similar scenes in Pennsylvania where motorists had | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
been stuck since Friday night, including a college basketball | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
The bus just stopped and we're told, yeah, there's an accident up ahead | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
and we're going to be sitting here for a while. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
The snow is really picking up I've never seen snow like this, | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
like coming from England, so I didn't really know | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
The snowstorm has transformed the landscape of 20 states. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
One in seven Americans will wake up to around a foot of snow. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
In Washington the blizzard has been one of the worst | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Turning its famous view of the White House into | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
But there are some who simply cannot hide their joy at a snow day. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
This is one of the few enjoying himself and doing his own particular | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
dance through the worst of this weather. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
The forecast is for this snow to continue into the early hours of | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
Sunday morning. Then the sun comes out. But that is when the clean-up | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
must begin. And that could take both some time and be expensive. | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
Thank you very much, Laura. There are calls tonight | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
for an independent investigation, after allegations that Scotland Yard | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
and the Crown Prosecution Service tried to cover up evidence | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
of corruption amongst some officers. The claims were made by the defence | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
in a long-running trail which has With the details, here's our home | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
editor, Mark Easton. There is some flash | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
photography in his report. Did Scotland Yard officers take | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
thousands of pounds in corrupt payments from private detectives? | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
And did police and the Crown Prosecution Service then cover up | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
the scandal? Those are the questions left hanging, after a court case was | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
sensationally dropped. Here at Southwark Crown Court last Thursday, | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
the Crown Prosecution Service suddenly announced they were | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
abandoning their 18-month long case against a former solicitor. Now he'd | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
been accused of forging documents to make it look as though Scotland Yard | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
detectives were taking bribes. But defence lawyers said far from trying | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
to pervert the course of justice, and even though Gohil previously | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
pleaded guilty to money laundering, he was trying to expose corruption | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
within the Metropolitan Police. I was a whistle-blower. Instead of | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
investigating what I had uncovered and put forward, I was persecuted. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
You claim to be innocent? I do, yes. In court, defence lawyers allege | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
there was clear and compelling evidence of police accepting bribes | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
in return for unlawfully providing sensitive information to private | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
detectives, that Scotland Yard's own investigation into the affair was | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
deliberately designed to find no evidence of corruption. And that | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
prosecutors deliberately withheld evidence, which undermined their | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
case, misleading the Court of Appeal in the process. These allegations | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
were disputed. The case goes back over four years when Mr Gohil | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
anonymously sent documents to public officials and journalists. Among the | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
bundle were what purported to be invoices, detailing payments to | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
confidential sources, bribes for Metropolitan Police officers it was | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
suggested. Having received the documents in August 2011, Scotland | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Yard's department of professional standards or DPS, was asked to | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
conduct an investigation into the allegations and journalists began to | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
ask questions. I was among a small group of reporters invited here to | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
New Scotland Yard in 2012 for an off the record briefing from officers | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
leading the corruption inquiry, a tape was made of that meeting, a | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
recording later used in court, which Mr Gohil's team said shows the Met | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
was not interested in investigating the corruption. When it emerged | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
officers had not made even basic calls after more than six months, I | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
suggest today was because they feared evidence emerging that would | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
jeopardise a long-running and high-profile fraud case. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Irritatingly it emerges during the latter stages of that investigation, | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
that actually some officers in this building took bribes or at least | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
there's a very serious... No, no. The paper trail suggests they may | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
well have done. Hang on, if I took that line from the outset Eric | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
multimillion pound trial, fraud trial, with good evidence would have | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
been scuppered. Exactly my point. There's the problem. No, no. You've | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
got the DPS more worried about a multimillion pound trial than about | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
corrupt police officers. No, it's not. We consider there are very | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
serious questions for both the Director of Public Prosecutions and | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
the chief commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to answer about | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
all aspects of this affair. Scotland Yard has said the allegations of | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
corruption were investigated but no misconduct was identified. The CPS | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
has only confirmed that the case against Mr Gohil has been dropped. | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
However they're not allegations they'll be able to ignore tore long. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
With all the sport, here's Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes at the BBC | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
It's been a fascinating day in the Premier league. | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Highlights are on Match of the Day after the news. | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
So, if you don't want to know what happened, you know what to do. | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Louis Van Gaal said Manchester United fans were right | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
to boo, after his side lost 1-0 at home to Southampton. | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
Southampton's new signing, Charlie Austin, scored | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
Possibly the game of the season was at Norwich, where Liverpool won | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic beat St Johnstone. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Bottom-placed Dundee United thrashed Kilmarnock, | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
Johanna Konta has become the first British woman to reach | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
the fourth round of the Australian Open tennis for 29 years. | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
Andy Murray also eased into the last 16 in Melbourne | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
but then had to rush to hospital, after his father-in-law collapsed. | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Playing professional tennis is a strange occupation. For hours you're | :13:31. | :13:44. | |
insulated from the outside world. Andy Murray's used to that and used | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
to his opponent. He played him three times last year. He used that to his | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
advantage. Sousa is known as conquistador, he is capable of | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
reclaiming ground. In the second set he took full advantage of a Murray | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
slump. The world number two was lured into a fight. He's more than | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
capable of handling himself. The significance of this blow in the | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
first game of the third was clear. Sousa's serve was broken. His | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
resistance would follow. Murray finished the job in four sets. While | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
he'd been playing, outside the bubble, his father-in-law, Nigel | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
Sears had collapse odd on another court. Murray visited him in | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
hospital, where he's said to be recovering. In Johanna Konta | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
hospital, where he's said to be the second week of grand slams. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Konta is ranked above her opponent. the second week of grand slams. | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
who was boss. Konta broke and won the first set 6-2. The British | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
number didn't face a single break point, so assertive was her | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
performance. The second went the same way as the first. For the first | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
time in 29 years, a British woman's into the last 16 in Melbourne. Could | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Johanna Konta go still further? Patrick gearery BBC News. | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
Bath are out of Rugby Union's European Champions Cup, | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
after losing to defending champions Toulon. | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
They're into the quarter-finals, thrashing the three times champions | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
And England's cricketers are 337 runs behind South Africa | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
going into the third day of the final Test in Pretoria. | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel. | :15:33. | :15:40. |