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, France has been blaming company for circumventing local tax law and channeling 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 he will have to pay 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 others Companies, like Microsoft, taking advantage of the fact they are based 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 agreed to pay to the UK government 130.000.000 pounds, or 172.000.000 euro, for the last ten years. The same categories are currently facing in France, as the authorities claim to bypass local tax legislation through its offices in Dublin.
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.
