Through a financial loophole left by HMRC and Mephistopheles, Google have managed to write off much of their liability by deducting any number with a zero in it. By sub-contracting their conscience to an offshore subsidiary, somewhere in the vicinity of Dante's fourth circle of Hell, all they need do now is sacrifice a dozen virgins and to play Ozzy Osbourne's 'Bark at the Moon' backwards.
One accountant explained: 'If you take off the adult filter on Google and search for tax avoidance, you get a graphic image of someone being rodgered senseless by a horny goat - which isn't strictly porn but does work as a metaphor'.