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France Seeking $1.76 Billion In Back Taxes From Google (reuters.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the tax-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes: According to a Reuters insider, France is seeking 1.6 billion euros in back taxes from Google, dwarfing what the United Kingdom recently agreed to pay. France apparently has no interest in striking the same 'sweetheart tax' deal that put the UK into a critical light when it revealed that the search giant would pay only 130 million pounds of tax, a $181.18 million settlement, for over 10 years in multi-billion dollar trade in the UK.

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  1. Danegeld by roman_mir · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is a clear cut case of Danegeld. Google should have never paid a single cent to UK government, now every vulture out there will be after them. AFAIC Google should hire hitmen to get rid of these officials making these demands.

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  2. Re:American's future entrepreneurs are watching by roman_mir · · Score: -1, Troll

    All good except this part:

    We should pay our fair share of taxes, but there's no way we should set ourselves up for being blind-sided.

    - AFAIC the only fair share of income taxes collected from anybody is 0.

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  3. That's odd by SuperKendall · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just tried Googling "France", and I got back a full page of Goatse links.

    For one I was REALLY glad I wasn't feeling lucky.

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  4. Re:France should try innovating... by ooloorie · · Score: 1, Troll
    "Leeching money out of France" makes no sense. Foreign companies provide valuable and useful services to France, services that the French obviously want and are willing to pay money for. If those services become unavailable, France will be worse off, not better off.

    France has serious economic problems This kind of stupidity on the part of the French government will only discourage investment in the country further and hurt them even more.