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The Public Accounts Committee, the British Parliament's public spending watchdog, has criticized the £130M ($185M) tax deal Google struck with the UK government as "disproportionately small." The committee also criticized the secrecy around how the sum was calculated, reports the Guardian.

Google's controversial tax deal cannot be properly assessed by MPs because of secrecy surrounding the negotiations, according to a report by parliament's public spending watchdog. But the deal to pay £130m in back taxes for a 10-year period seems "disproportionately small when compared with the size of Google's business in the UK", the public accounts committee has found.

A report published today calls for more to be done to prevent "aggressive [tax] avoidance" by multinational companies, with Google accused of hypocrisy ...

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