French police raided Google's headquarters in Paris this morning, following a prolonged standoff research for tax evasion that began in 2011, according to Le Parisien.
About 100 tax officers were sacked Google's offices at 5: 00 am, local time and began looking for receipts and documents to certify ways of tax bypasses from Google.
In recent months, the France accuses the company of circumventing local tax laws and funneling its profits to its official European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
The authorities claim that the company operates with permanent offices in Paris, and therefore should comply with local laws. So you should pays taxes in France, which are among the highest in Europe. On the other hand, Ireland has the lowest corporate tax in the EU, and many other companies, such as Microsoft, take advantage of this fact to have their headquarters there.
Local authorities have launched a survey of a supposedly fraudulent Google tax fraud 2011 when they raided their offices in Paris for the first time.
French officials claim that Google owes 1,6 a billion euros in taxes since the company started operating in Paris. At the start of 2016, Google faced a similar search in Britain, but reached agreement with the British authorities.
Google has agreed to pay government of the United Kingdom .130.000.000 172.000.000, or € XNUMX, for the last ten years. She is currently facing the same charges in France, as authorities claim she is circumventing local tax legislation through her Dublin offices.
Le Parisien reports that French Finance Minister Michel Sapin did not intend to reach a similar agreement with Google. The French official claims that the amount owed by Google is too large to be ignored.
For its part, Google has announced that it will work with the research authorities and that it complies with local decisions.
