Google pays €1bn to French authorities to settle tax-dodging claims

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Google to pay France €465m in back taxes and a fine of €500m - a long way short of the €1.6bn France's finance ministry had demanded

Google is to pay €965 million to the French authorities over claims that it underpaid corporate taxes. The investigation was started in 2016, with the authorities in France arguing that the company...

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