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ExxonMobil workers call on firm to pay tax

FAMILIES of underpaid Australian ExxonMobil workers gathered outside the senate in Canberra yesterday to demand that the transnational oil giant pay its taxes.

Executives faced a grilling by senators over the company’s 100 per cent tax avoidance.

A report published yesterday by the Tax Justice Network revealed that ExxonMobil had paid no tax in two years.

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