[diarmuidie]

What Google is doing is not illegal (immoral maybe). They have an obligation to their shareholder to maximise their profits through all legal means. If they were to turn around tomorrow and announce that they will no longer use the "Dutch Sandwich" and profit falls as a result do you think the shareholders would be happy?

[yapcguy]

Here we go again, the same old corporate mantra trotted out once more, about maximizing shareholder value, to excuse a company's unethical behaviour.

So why doesn't Google and every other company move to Dubai where corporation tax is zero percent? Why aren't shareholders demanding the company move to the lowest tax jurisdictions in the world?

[gaadd33]

Because optimizing taxation isn't the only aspect to running Google efficiently? I thought that would be obvious.