Google chairman Eric Schmidt  toward the rate of tax paid to the UK treasury, despite MP's calling for the 'immoral' outstanding £6m to be accounted for by the Californian company.

Search giant Google has not followed the example of fellow multinational Starbucks, who last week pledged to overpay on their corporation tax, instead offering a defiant rebuttal of the claims of their accusers, with chairman Eric Schmidt determined the UK Treasury would not receive any more tax from his company.

American coffee chain Starbucks, implicated in the recent corporation tax scandal, have bowed to public pressure and announced that they will pay £10m in tax over the next two years - the first of the U.S multi-nationals to make a public climbdown.

American coffee giant Starbucks, implicated by MPs in a report on tax-evasion along with Google and Amazon, has announced they are to review their "approach" towards UK taxation.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has taken another swipe at Google over their alleged tax-avoidance, claiming that despite generating "shed-loads" of revenue in the UK, the search giant could be seen do be doing "a little bit more" to fix their "PR problem".

MPs put American multinationals Starbucks, Amazon and Google under scrutiny yesterday over suspected off-shore tax-avoidance schemes denounced as "immoral" during a three-hour investigation.