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Calls for coronavirus levy as Google and Facebook accused of avoiding billions in tax

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Campaigners have called for a coronavirus levy on the household name tech giants accused of­ avoiding at least £1.3billion in tax.

The Fair Tax Mark wants a ­dramatic change in taxation so that international companies help fund the crippling cost of the lockdown in Britain – instead of lowly-paid workers like NHS staff.

The demand come just weeks after five tech giants – including Google – were accused of avoiding tax worth an estimated £1.3billion in the UK last year.

Paul Monaghan, chief executive of Fair Tax Mark, said: “Silicon Valley mega-corporations such as Apple, Facebook and Google should be forced, at last, to make a fair tax contribution to the public services on which they rely, just like the rest of us. “No public money,

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