The US Google announced on the 12th that it had agreed to pay 965 million euros (about 115 billion yen) to the French authorities. Euro 500 million is a fine for tax evasion ordered by the French court, and Euro 465 million is an additional tax. The French government has created a French digital tax and is increasingly monitoring US IT giants, and this huge fine seems to be part of that effort.
The French prosecutor announced yesterday that Google had agreed to pay a French fine of € 500 million for tax evasion in France. Google was investigating on suspicion that it did not file the necessary tax return for 2011-14.
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