Eric Schmidt bought the estate in London for £ 30 million
British The Financial Times writes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt plans to acquire own estate near London, paying for a house and a plot of about 30 million pounds. This amount is more than Google itself has paid taxes in the UK over the past few years. FT notes that the head of Google began to search the house for about two months ago, shortly after the British authorities have criticized Google for being an Internet company actively employs over tactics tax optimization.
From 2006 to 2011, Google had revenues of $ 12 billion, but paid taxes on that amount, only about 10.6 million pounds, as all of the revenue transfers to offshore. Press notes that now the British luxury housing segment since the crisis hit price records due to the arrival of wealthy foreign investors, including those from Russia and Asia. Official London undertook a series of measures to curb rising prices, but it's not very successful. Only for 2012 prices increased by 7%. known that the selection of homes for Eric Schmidt has been a close friend of Prince William, and the home must be located close to Chelsea and Holland Park.
In addition, it is known that the house should belong to the so-called super-premium segment, where the value is greater than 3000 pounds per square foot. It is this property recently bought by foreign investors. Recall that Google itself is now preparing to open a large representative office in Kings Cross.
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