Google to pay tax based on its "profits from sales" in the United Kingdom.

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

Sales from UK customers were $6.5bn (£4.56bn), suggesting a profit of more than £1bn from those earnings. As Google UK paid corporate tax of £46.2m in the 18 months to June 2015, that would mean an effective tax rate of about 3 per cent.

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-01-23/googles-2-5-uk-tax-rate/

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/124d49ce-c446-11e5-b3b1-7b2481276e45.html

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

The Government can't apply the law just to one company. If you would like all international companies to pay tax on their UK sales, you could sign this petition:

Tax major international companies on their UK sales, not their reported profit

Timeline

28 Jan 2016	Petition opened for signatures
24 Mar 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14

Status Rejected

Rejected 24 Mar 2016

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