This week, we saw Google and Amazon hauled over the coals by a
Parliamentary committee that called Amazon "evasive" and Google
"immoral". Their crime? Tax avoidance on a truly epic scale.
They're not the only firms who do it - Starbucks was hauled in
front of the same committee, and of course many of the
newspapers reporting the firms' tax practices have similarly
labyrinthine corporate structures to avoid tax - but they're
among the highest profile offenders.  Does it matter? TechRadar
commenters lew247 and mrochester say no. "It's not illegal so
what's the big deal?" says lew247, while mrochester reckons that
everyone "should stop whining that people are operating within
the laws set out."  Meanwhile daddacool points out that
according to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, about half of
the "tax gap" is due to small and medium-sized enterprises, not
massive multinationals.  So do the tech firms' taxes matter?  Of
course they do.  Perfectly legal - but MPs say it's immoral  The
argument against Google, Amaz