Google to pay €1bn to end French tax probe
Found on BBC News on Friday, 13 September 2019
Investigators said Google owed about €1.6bn in unpaid taxes amid a wider crackdown on tax planning of big firms.
The search giant, which is part of Alphabet, pays little tax in most European countries because it reports almost all of its sales in Ireland.
In March, the EU hit Google with a €1.5bn fine for blocking rival online search advertisers and last year the European Commission levelled a record €4.3bn fine against the firm over its Android mobile operating system.
Maybe this will help them to understand that creative tax manipulation is not just a little problem.