One of the most popular methods used by indian internet, tech companies, indian intelligence and security agencies like CBI, NTRO, R&AW to destroy the life, finances and career of a brilliant hardworking honest experienced business owner or professional is to falsely accuse the person of having black money without any proof at all. After 6 years of surveillance these officials are unable to find any proof at all, yet the professional or business owner is defamed, cheated, exploited and tortured for the rest of his or her life.
On other hand these companies like Google, Tata are indulging in practices to reduce their tax liability to the extent possible, which could be considered as tax evasion or “black money” . For example Google in europe is headquartered in Ireland because it has the lowest tax rates of around 12.5% , though most of its business in Europe is from the larger countries like United Kingdom, France. In United Kingdom the corporate tax rates are 20%, in France corporate tax rates are 33.33% yet for the European operations, Google is only paying the tax rate of 12.5% on the profit saying that the offices in UK and France are branch offices of the Ireland office.
The raids on Paris, France office of google in May 2016 were to determine how big the offices were, the extent of the operations in France. The media reported that google had been trying to keep a low profile in France to evade taxes, there was no signboard of Google. It would be interesting to find how much money Google has been collecting from the France office. If it was a full fledged office, Google would be liable to pay taxes at a higher rate, which could be substantial.
Like all corporates, Google is trying to reduce the taxes it has to pay, so that it can maximize the profit, for paying shareholders and as fund for future development, investment. NTRO, indian intelligence and security agencies have been ruthless in harassing small business owners and professionals who have used entirely legal methods to reduce their tax liability, falsely accusing them of having black money, and torturing them for years. When google will evade taxes, worldwide, will NTRO attack the google employees for black money, torturing them. Why the double standards of Black money for NTRO, indian security and intelligence agency officials.