Google said on Thursday it agreed to pay 465 million euros in additional taxes to French authorities, boosting the total settlement to end a fiscal fraud probe in the country to nearly 1 billion. France's financial prosecutor office earlier said Google had agreed to pay half a billion euros in fine to settle the four-year old investigation. "We have put an end to the tax and related disputes we had had in France for many years," Google said in a written statement. Read More...
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PARIS (Reuters) – Google said on Thursday it agreed to pay 465 million euros in additional taxes to French authorities, boosting the total settlement to end a fiscal fraud probe in the country to nearly 1 billion.
France’s financial prosecutor office earlier said Google had agreed to pay half a billion euros in fine to settle the four-year old investigation.
“We have put an end to the tax and related disputes we had had in France for many years,” Google said in a written statement.
“These agreements include a payment of 500 million euros announced today by a French court, as well as an amount of 465 million euros in additional taxes that we have agreed to pay,” it added.
(Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain; Editing by GV De Clercq)
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