A whistleblower who revealed that Google paid a very small amount of tax in the United Kingdom, was motivated by the Last Judgement.

“I don’t think there has been any real benefit to me for standing up. The main benefit is knowing that, as one day we will all be held accountable for our actions – I believe that Jesus will hold us accountable for the good and bad we have done – I will know that I didn’t allow something within my power to just slip through. But I stood up and said: ‘Well, actually this is a wrong thing, and this is something we have to think about,’” he said.

Jones, who worked with the Google sales team, approached the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee after reading that a Google executive had given evidence “claiming that the company did not sell products in the UK and therefore owed no tax there,” The Guardian reports. Jones was “compelled by his faith” to give evidence.

In Britain there is controversy over multinational companies booking their profits through Irish subsidiaries because of the low rate of company tax in that country. By booking all UK sales through Ireland, Google is reported to have paid only about £10m in corporation tax over the period 2006-11.

“The real victims are ordinary taxpayers in Britain who are being cheated by Google,” he told the Sunday Times.

“They don’t have the means to hire accountants to pretend they make their money in Ireland, Bermuda or the British Virgin Islands.

“What Google is doing is immoral.”

Figures presented to the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee showed that Google paid just £6m in British corporation tax in 2011. Turnover in the UK was more than £3bn that year.

Sky News reported that British MPs reacted with incredulity to claims that the company did not carry out advertising sales in the UK and accused the firm of “deliberately manipulating the reality of their business”.