Google's UK tax avoidance was likened to the actions of News International by a Scots MP.
Jim Sheridan said he had been left with a sense of "deja vu" as he listened to the company's excuses for not paying corporation tax in the UK despite extensive operations here.
The Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North made the accusation to Google's head of UK public policy, Sarah Hunter, as she gave evidence in a session of the Commons Culture Committee's inquiry into support for the creative economy.
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