Google delinquent taxes: France seeks €1.6bn from hunt giant

French authorities have demanded that Google pays €1.6bn ($1.8bn; £1.3bn) in delinquent taxes.

The figure is almost some-more than a £130m a hunt engine concluded to compensate in behind taxes to UK authorities.

However, France’s AFP news group reported that Google competence be means to negotiate and might not compensate a full sum.

The company’s arch executive, Sundar Pichai, is visiting Paris and was due to accommodate a France’s economy apportion Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday night.

It is not transparent if they will plead a taxation issue.

Earlier this month, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin ruled out distinguished a understanding with a US company.

Google would not criticism on reports of a taxation direct and French officials pronounced a matter was confidential.

Tax scrutinised

The taxation arrangements of general companies have come underneath tighten inspection recently.

Several have been indicted of regulating authorised methods to minimise their taxation bills.

In Google’s case, a taxation structure allows it to compensate taxation in Ireland, even when sales seem to describe to a UK.

In Jan it struck a understanding with UK taxation authorities to compensate an additional £130m in taxation for a duration from 2005, though that understanding was heavily criticised.

Earlier on Wednesday a UK Public Accounts Committee (PAC) pronounced a £130m allotment “seems disproportionately small“, compared with a distance of a UK business.

Brussels investigates

Europe’s foe authorities have been examining either some deals struck by large companies with inhabitant taxation authorities volume to bootleg state aid.

Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler were told they contingency compensate behind adult to €30m (£22m) in taxes after European taxation breaks were ruled illegal.

But a dual countries disagreed with a ruling, and Starbucks pronounced it would interest opposite a decision.

Further investigations into taxation deals, including those covering Amazon and Apple, are continuing.

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