The MPs also asked about HMRC’s progress on cracking down on tax avoidance by international corporates. Ms Homer said the efforts were being led at an international level and that much of the public criticism was the result of “uninformed debate.” She said that in Britain “a lot of people will probably know and understand more about their mobile phone contracts than their relationship with the country on tax”, despite furious outcry over the tax arrangements of Starbucks, Google and Amazon. She said HMRC is “looking very seriously at taking tax into schools and colleges” to educate the population.