Google Spain offices were raided, European life difficult –
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Beijing time June 30 message, foreign media reported, as part of an illegal tax evasion investigating whether Google, Spain tax investigators on Thursday raided the Google Office in Madrid.
Zhiqian, Spain Government is investigating whether illegal tax evasion through special tax arrangements. According to Spain the world newspaper (El Mundo) reported that Spain tax authorities suspect that Google did not declare it in Spain's economic activity.
While Google insists, has been to Spain the Government has paid all the taxes. A Google spokesman said today: "we respect Spain's tax laws. We will continue to cooperate with Spain authorities investigate and answer their questions. ”
Currently, Google's increasingly tough in Europe. In order to obtain maximum benefits, Google constantly subordinates through a subsidiary, to shift income to low rates of tax havens, such as Ireland and Bermuda. A document made public in February this year, Google in 2014 by 10.7 billion euros (about us $ 12 billion) International revenue transferred to a shell company in Bermuda, $ 2.4 billion in tax evasion on a global scale.
To this end, Google in the United Kingdom, and France and other European subsidiaries to pay few taxes. Google this tax avoidance has already provoked EU anger. The EU has said investigations into various complaints received by Google.
In January of this year, Google and the United Kingdom Governments reached an agreement, agreed to the United Kingdom to pay taxes for nearly 10 years, I have 130 million pounds (about 186 million u.s. dollars).
In early February, France's Finance Minister mixieer·Saban (Michel Sapin) said France tax department to request Google to pay taxes to be much higher and the United Kingdom reached the amount of duty payable. Last month, France police and tax officials on Google France raided the headquarters.
谷歌西班牙办公室遭突击检查，欧洲日子不好过 -
谷歌,西班牙 - IT资讯
北京时间6月30日晚间消息，国外媒体报道，作为调查谷歌是否非法逃税行动的一部分，西班牙税务调查人员周四对谷歌马德里办公室进行了突击检查。
之前，西班牙政府正在调查谷歌是否通过特殊的税收安排来非法逃税。另据西班牙《世界报》(El Mundo)报道，西班牙税务部门怀疑谷歌并未申报其在西班牙的经济活动。
而谷歌坚称，已经向西班牙政府缴纳了全部税金。谷歌一发言人今日称：“我们遵守了西班牙的税收法规。我们将一如既往地配合西班牙当局的调查，并解答他们的各种疑问。”
当前，谷歌在欧洲的日子越来越不好过了。为了获得收益最大化，谷歌不断通过子公司进行倒账，将收入转移到低税率的避税天堂，如爱尔兰和百慕大。今年2月公开的一份文件显示，谷歌2014年通过把107亿欧元(约合120亿美元)的国际营收转移至位于百慕大群岛的一家壳公司，在全球范围避税24亿美元。
为此，谷歌在英国、法国和欧洲其他国家的子公司缴纳的税收寥寥无几。谷歌这种避税行为早已激起欧盟国家的愤怒。欧盟已经表示，将针对所收到的各种投诉对谷歌展开调查。
今年1月，谷歌与英国政府达成协议，同意向英国补缴近10年的税款，大约1.3亿英镑(约合1.86亿美元)。
2月初，法国财政部长米歇尔·萨班(Michel Sapin)称，法国税务部门要求谷歌补缴的税款将远高于与英国达成的税款金额。上个月，法国警方和税务官员也对谷歌法国总部进行了突击检查。