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EXCLUSIVE. Google straightened one billion euros by the IRS!
Fiscal control of giant reached a record! And help reduce (slightly) the budget deficit of France in 2014.
The tax dispute between the French State and Google concludes with a record recovery of one billion euros, has-been learned from a government source and a parliamentary source. The joint Point.fr Bercy relies tax secrecy and wished neither confirm nor deny that sum. Point is yet able to say that the Directorate General of Taxation has not skimped to claim his due. To the delight of Bernard Cazeneuve , the Minister for the Budget, which is expected to raise two billion additional euros in 2014 through hunting fraudsters. However, between the time when the Treasury is claiming payment of one billion euros to Google and the actual payment, it may take a while ...
The dispute between Google and the Treasury goes back several years. June 30, 2011, a raid on the headquarters of Google France has allowed the National Directorate of tax and customs investigations take many documents (invoices, emails, contracts ...) to defeat the optimization strategy tax introduced by the U.S. giant through its various subsidiaries, including via the Ireland .
Google has always maintained that it was in compliance with national legislation. The Mountain View company declares, in France, a low turnover (less than 150 million euros) stating bill sponsored links its search engine for Ireland. This allowed Google to set only very small slate tax: EUR 5.5 million in 2011.
According to Google, this is the set of global Internet players operating in France who could pay hundreds of millions of euros in Bercy. For other litigation undertake effect Amazon, Facebook, Apple ..