Tribunal
Administratif de, a district justice in Paris, finally discharged Google
Company's €1.6 billion tax bill case after found that that the world’s biggest search
engine company does not have any direct or physical operations in the country France
to file a warrant to pay any additional taxes like they accused.
In the month of May 2016,
French government financial and income tax authorities with the members of
twenty five IT (Information Technology) specialists had conducted a full raid
on Google Company’s Paris Head Quarter to gather some evidence of the Google Company’s
income tax evasion for the French government and the raid was conducted by full
cooperation of Google authorities.
After few months finance
ministry of France Government was accused that the Google Company using some techniques
of aggressive tax optimization and the company has to pay around €1.6 billion as
taxes. Previously the investigation was going on to verify about the Google
Ireland Limited has a permanent place in France or not to do the activities for
their company and if it’s carried any, then the Google has failed to pay the
corporate tax and VAT (Value added tax).
In the month of May, Google Company
was paid €303 million taxes to Italy and €3 million taxes to Ireland. Before
that Google also agreed to pay a £130 million taxes for UK government as pending
taxes from the of year 2005. Currently Google Company is facing a case of Australian
government that some pending amount of income tax and the issue was claimed by
the ATO (Australian Taxation Office).
By all these problems, Google
Company has got some good news from the French court for the tax evasion case
filed by the France government, but the French government has got two months to
appeal further in the court and its working on it.
