(Finance) – Google pays almost 326 million euros to the Italian tax authorities And he closes a tax dispute that was opened since the mid -2023 archiving on the criminal front.
At the center of the investigation, which came to the surface last June, there was the Google Ireland Limited, sOciety of the Californian group.
In essence, given the presence in Italy of servers and technological servicesI, but also of Google Italy staff, the sale of advertising spaces with taxes not paid on revenues was contested. In addition, the “believed that Google IRL should have applied to the royalties paid to foreign companies belonging to the same group” for “use and exploitation, by the permanent organization, of all programs, algorithms, brands and brands constituting, had been calculated. As a whole, Google technology “.
It was, however, a “conduct”, the prosecutors wrote in the request for storage, which did not violate any “tax rule” but he was unusual “the application”, that is, of profiles of alleged tax elusive or ” abuse of the law “and not of evasion. And given the “presence” of “elements of interpretative uncertainty” and also “the peculiarities of this story”, For The prosecutor is impossible, so we read in the act, “formulate a reasonable prognosis of conviction with reference to the hypotheses of crime”.
In the meantime, on the tax front, albeit “dissenting on a technical level” from the conclusions of the Revenue Agency, Google accepted “to define the dispute” by paying almost 326 million on 14 November, of which over 265 “for omits deemed on Royalties (including penalties and interests) “and over 60 million” by way of IRES and IRAP (including penalties and interests) “.
The investigation on Google defined with a storage request, It will now have to be evaluated by a investigating magistrate.
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