Google Faces Fresh Claims On Tax Avoidance A former Google executive has accused the company of cheating the taxpayer out of hundreds of millions of pounds. Barney Jones claims the firm has been running an "immoral" tax avoidance scheme for the past decade. The 34-year-old, who worked at the company between 2002 and 2006, made his allegations to The Sunday Times. "The real victims are ordinary taxpayers in Britain who are being cheated by Google," he told the paper. They don't have the means to hire accountants to pretend they make their money in Ireland, Bermuda or the British Virgin Islands. What Google is doing is immoral. The allegations come days after MPs described the internet giant's tax operation as "devious, calculated and unethical." Matt Brittin, the company's vice president, was grilled by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday over its payment of just £6m in British corporation tax in 2011. Google's vice president Matt Brittin quizzed by the PAC last week The firm generated more than £3bn in revenue that year, but claims its UK transactions actually take place in Ireland, where the corporate tax rate is significantly lower. But MPs reacted with incredulity to claims that the company did not carry out advertising sales in the UK and accused the firm of "deliberately manipulating the reality of their business." Google has always strongly denied any wrongdoing - and Mr Brittin insisted the company complied "fully" with tax laws. However, Mr Jones told The Sunday Times: "It uses a concocted scheme to avoid tax. It's a smoke-screen to distort where the substance of its economic activity is really taking place. Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, who is due to meet Prime Minister David Cameron at Downing Street on Monday, claimed his company "has always aspired to do the right thing" but said "international tax law could almost certainly benefit from reform." He will also be at a Google event in Hertfordshire on Wednesday where Labour leader Ed Miliband is due to speak. Mr Miliband has pledged new rules to tackle corporate tax dodgers if he wins the next election.