After the adventure with the French authorities raiding the Google offices in Paris, the company experienced a similar situation in its offices in Spain. Tax authorities raided Google's headquarters last weekteam looking for evidence linking the company to possible tax evasion according to Spanish media reports.
The raid took place on Thursday morning, June 30, at Google's "Madrid Campus" as the company calls its local headquarters.
The authorities were seeking VAT which had not been paid by Google. Initially, Google employees refused entry to the tax authorities, but not for long. The inspection lasted until 18: 30 in the evening.
A Google spokesperson said after the research that the company complies with local tax laws and that it will cooperate with the Spanish tax authorities.
At the end of May, the French authorities raided the company headquarters in Paris, arguing that Google owes EUR 2 billion to France 1,6.
Earlier this year, Google also had problems with the British authorities, who accused the company of not paying taxes in recent years. So Google agreed to pay 130 millions pounds for the last ten years. However, the French authorities do not seem so keen on such a settlement.
All three of them countries they search Google for the same reason. Like many other multinational companies, Google directs its profits from the above three countries to its base in Ireland, because the country has the lowest tax rates in Europe.
