Google despite being a global company has the most unethical corporate and social responsibility values. Google evades taxes on the plea that it is a virtual company whereas it has servers located all over the world. It generates revenue from advertisments from local clients globally and targets those ads to viewers using Google and its subsidery services like Youtube locally where the sponsors mostly are located.
In Pakistan I have also challenged Google in Supreme Court of Pakistan on the plea that it has no legal agreement with Government of Pakistan or the internet regulator – Pakistan Telecommunication Authoritry. Google is generating revenue from local corporate sector like banks, multinational companies and Telecom companies etc but it does not pay a single penny to the tax authorities in Pakistan. Google has also launched a local portal in local national language -Urdu by the name “Google Pakistan” and is in violation of national intellectual propert rights without being registered in Pakistan.
So not only it evades taxes in EU countries like France etc but even does not spare developing countries like Pakistan.
It gives me shivers to imagine what it would be doing to countries all over the world.
My question is why a company like Google has so trecheroius and wicked financial manipulation system and fails to comply with international best practices of business.
Simply developing the search indexing algorithm and launching inovating services is not enough to mark it as a true innovative leader in today’s world.
By- Dr Kamil Tarar
Email: kamiltarar@gmail.com
Cell 0092 345 9228832
Islamabad- Pakistan