Google Gets Boost in Fight Over $1.3 Billion French Tax Bill
- Tax authority seeking back taxes from search engine giant
- Court aide says Google’s Irish unit can’t be forced to pay
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Google should be let off the hook from a 1.12 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) tax recovery order in France even though fiscal authorities in the country are seeking to recoup that amount, according to an adviser at the Paris administrative court.
Google’s European headquarters in Ireland doesn’t have a permanent establishment in France that would force the company to pay the back taxes claimed by the French administration, the adviser said at a Wednesday hearing reported by Agence France-Presse and confirmed by a court official.