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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (937436)	5/29/2016 9:12:06 AM
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Texas deals with oil spills during heavy flooding- by hiding photos of the spills elpasotimes.com But they didn't get these: Photos: Floodwaters in Texas overwhelm oil wells, fracking sites elpasotimes.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (937436)	5/29/2016 9:45:48 AM
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France 'to go all the way' to make multinationals pay their taxes Finance minister Michel Sapin rules out UK-style deal with Google or McDonald’s and says more cases could follow France will “go all the way” to ensure multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes while more cases could follow after Google and McDonald’s were targeted in tax raids, the finance minister, Michel Sapin, has said. Sapin also ruled out negotiating a deal with Google on back taxes, as Britain did in January. “We’ll go all the way. There could be other cases,” Sapin said. Dozens of French police raided Google’s Paris headquarters on Tuesday, prompting an investigation on suspicions of tax evasion. Tax investigators searched McDonald’s French headquarters on 18 May. The raids built on work started by tax authorities three to four years ago, when they transferred tax data to judicial authorities who look into possible crimes, Sapin said. Google, McDonald’s and other multinational firms such as Starbucks are under increasing pressure in Europe from public opinion and governments angry at the way businesses exploit their international presence to minimise the tax they pay. theguardian.com