In a moment of admirable honesty, Sir Martin Sorrell said that the amount of corporation tax a company pays was really “a question of judgement.” However, the tipping point will come when international players such as Google and Amazon decide it is purely in their corporate interest to avoid the social stigma attached to highly artificial forms of tax avoidance, says Raymond Snoddy.
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