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8bn-a-year in Google postbox: Inside giant¡¯s secret Bermuda haven

No office, employees or sign, just a tiny lock-up
They use it to funnel fortune on zero-tax isle



World wide web ... how tech firm are cheating the system

EXCLUSIVE from PETE SAMSON, US Editor and ISLA HARVEY in Bermuda

16:01, 30 Jan 2016

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TECH giant Google is funnelling an estimated £8billion of profits a year through a nondescript postbox in Bermuda.

The firm has taken advantage of the sunshine island¡¯s zero corporate tax rate to set up Google Bermuda Unlimited.

There are no employees, no office and no signage to be found there.


Its only presence is the tiny metal box bearing the number of the beast, 666, and housed at a post office building in the capital Hamilton.

Small mailbox... the firm's only presence on the island

Small mailbox... the firm's only presence on the island © Splash News  

Last week Google — whose slogan was once ¡°Don¡¯t be evil¡± — was slammed over a deal to pay HM Revenue & Customs £130million in back taxes covering the last ten years, despite profits of £6billion.

That¡¯s a rate of just three per cent.

Google says it has no permanent UK base despite a string of fancy offices housing 2,300 staff.

At the Bermudan government¡¯s official Registrar of Companies, Google Bermuda Unlimited and Google Ireland Holdings are registered to the address of Conyers Dill and Pearman, a law firm at Clarenden House, 2 Church Street, Hamilton.

Is Google here? ... giant is just tiny post box at office

Is Google here? ... giant is just tiny post box at office © Max Butterworth / Splash News  

The firm specialises in ¡°offshore corporate, litigation and private equity matters¡±, and its address is just three blocks from the post office which houses the PO box.

Google, which makes most of its money through online advertising, has been moving profits to the tax haven via Ireland and Holland.

In 2013, it sent £7.5billion in global royalties to its Bermuda-based subsidiary, according to the company¡¯s own accounts.


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It is thought this will have risen to more than £8billion for last year.

This will include hundreds of millions earned from UK users of the search engine.

Yet few people in Bermuda realise the tech giant holds its entire global earnings, excluding the US, on the island — including those who work at the very building housing the law firm.

Derrick Ward, 51, has delivered mail in the postal department of Conyers Dill & Pearman for the past four years.

Postie ... Derrick

Postie ... Derrick © Splash News  

He had no idea Google¡¯s offshore base was on his doorstep.

Derrick said: ¡°Google don¡¯t have an office in the lawyers¡¯ building. I¡¯m sure we¡¯d know about it if they did.

¡°If there was a Google HQ on Bermuda it would be clear to see. I hear they have football pitches at their offices. I¡¯ve never met anyone who works for Google in all my life¡±.

The Sun on Sunday approached a receptionist at the law firm who claimed she had been working there for 35 years.

She also had no idea that Google conducted business dealings on the island, a British overseas territory.

Speaking from the drab-looking office, which is decked with plastic ferns, 1980s-style furniture and tacky oil paintings, she said: ¡°Google doesn¡¯t have an office here, they don¡¯t employ any staff here.¡±

But after referring to her computer, the receptionist said that Google Bermuda Unlimited is registered at PO Box 666 through the law firm¡¯s affiliate company, called Codan.

Long-time post office clerk Carla Cann said: ¡°I¡¯ve never heard of Google being on the island.

¡°It¡¯s a small place. We¡¯d know all the businesses here. I¡¯ve never met anyone who works for Google.¡±

The search giant¡¯s presence in the UK is a far cry from the windowless reception of the Bermudan law office.

Here it has multi-million-pound contracts to rent four central London buildings plus a northern headquarters in Manchester.

It is also spending £1billion on London super-HQ for 5,000 staff.

The offices, including its main HQ in the multi-coloured Central St Giles, are renowned for their bold and trendy interiors and spaces for staff to enjoy, including a free bar.

Six years ago, HMRC began auditing Google for its international tax structures and the fact it moves revenue through countries that have lower tax rates than the UK.

Chancellor George Osborne hailed the Treasury¡¯s settlement to get back £130million from Google in unpaid back taxes as a victory for the taxpayer.

Osborne ... championed puny deal

Osborne ... championed puny deal © Reuters  

But the deal was blasted by critics, who said Google should have been paying ten times that amount.

And last week David Cameron defended the Tories¡¯ efforts at collecting Google taxes, saying it should have been done under the last Labour government.

The whistleblower who helped reveal how Google was avoiding paying tax in the UK called it a ¡°sweetheart deal¡±.

Barney Jones, 37, an executive at the tech firm from 2002 to 2006, added that ¡°heads should roll¡± at HM Revenue and Customs for allowing it to pass, and that the figure was ¡°pocket change¡± for Google.

Steve Hilton, a former adviser to David Cameron, said he sympathised with public anger because Google appears to operate ¡°above the law¡±.

He said: ¡°There is a growing sense that companies that are so big and so dominant, not just in the marketplace but in the way they relate to governments, their lobbying efforts and so on, that they really are above the law.¡±

Britain is Google¡¯s biggest market outside America yet French tax officials are close to squeezing far more out of the firm in back payments.

Google executive Matt Brittin has defended its UK tax deal.

Google man ... Matt

Google man ... Matt © Reuters  

And Peter Barron, the company¡¯s European public affairs chief, added: ¡°We are paying the full amount of tax that HMRC agrees we should pay.

¡°Governments make tax law and tax authorities independently enforce the law, and Google complies with the law.¡±

The Sun called Conyers Dill and Pearman¡¯s Bermuda office and asked to speak to the person who dealt with the Google account.

We were referred to Samira Saya, corporate manager at the law firm¡¯s affiliate Codan.

Asked about the firm¡¯s work with Google, she said: ¡°We¡¯re not in a position to discuss our clients.¡±

Google claims its Bermudan operation does not impact the tax paid in the UK.

The company deploys a strategy known as the ¡°Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich¡± to shrink its tax bill.

It sends revenue first through a company in Ireland, which has lower corporation tax than the UK, then to a company in Holland and finally to a second Irish company headquartered in Bermuda.

Google is one of five giant US tech firms sitting on huge piles of cash, including Apple and Microsoft.

The companies keep the majority of their overseas earnings abroad to keep it beyond the reach of the US and its 35 per cent tax rate on repatriated cash.

Tomorrow Google is expected to announce its global cash stockpile is £30billion.

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Fury of business bosses

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SMALL businesses say they get a bad deal from the taxman while big firms use loopholes to claw back fortunes. Here are two traders¡¯ views . . .

Salon chief

¡®They make it so difficult for small firms¡¯

Unhappy ... Greg Couzens

Unhappy ... Greg Couzens © Paul Cousans  

GREG employs eight hairdressers in Rochdale, Gtr Manchester, and has had the taxman checking his returns six times.

The 55-year-old, said: ¡°I pay a fortune in tax, and everything is in order but they try to make it as difficult as possible for small firms.

¡°Hair salons are seen as easy prey because they used to be a cash-only business. I don¡¯t mind the taxman watching me but six times is ridiculous.

¡°It takes up hours of work and causes sleepless nights because you¡¯re terrified you¡¯ve made a mistake. Small firms bear the brunt, big business gets away with it. It isn¡¯t fair.¡±

Cafe owner
¡®Large coffee chains pay 0%. It isn¡¯t fair¡¯

Steve Lewis ... championing small business

Steve Lewis ... championing small business © PA:Press Association  

EX-Army officer Steve and wife Sam have run Number 18 café for 11 years in Crickhowell, South Wales.

Traders there have launched the Fair Tax Campaign.

The 63-year-old, who starred in BBC show The Town That Took On The Taxman, said: ¡°While I pay 20 per cent tax on my profits, the large coffee chains use legal loopholes to avoid tax, or negotiate with HMRC to reduce their bill to zero.

¡°The playing field is not fair for people like us and it damages communities.

¡°We need someone in charge at the tax office who will champion small businesses.¡±

Cam¡¯s big u-turn on US tech firm¡¯s tax

Boasts ... the PM

Boasts ... the PM © Getty Images  

By RYAN SABEY

DAVID Cameron once argued firms like Google paid too much tax.

He signalled, while opposition leader, that the web giant and other large companies set up HQs elsewhere because UK rates were too high.

Mr Cameron told Real Business magazine in 2006 that Labour ministers should look at Britain¡¯s tax structure.

He said: ¡°Google and others are headquartering elsewhere as we¡¯re no longer tax competitive.¡±

He said he would make corporation tax a priority, sharing ¡°proceeds of growth between public spending and tax reduction¡±.

Labour¡¯s Jon Ashworth said last night: ¡°No one believes the Tories want a fairer system.

Their record is of cutting millionaires¡¯ tax while ordinary people pay more.¡±

¡®UK office is a sham¡¯¡¯

GOOGLE¡¯S 2,300 UK staff earned an average wage of £160,000 each in 2015, it is reported.

This is despite the firm¡¯s insistence that its operation here is amodest part of its global empire.

Margaret Hodge, former chair of the public accounts committee, said the high pay is further evidence Google¡¯s ¡°complex structure of companies is a sham¡±.

She said: ¡°Google UK is not a back office support operation. These are clearly people who are paid a lot because they add value — selling advertising, closing deals and developing new products.¡±

 
   
     


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