Agreement with the Italian tax authorities, Google pays a maxi fine of 326 million euros

Google, at the end of the tax assessment phase conducted by the Revenue Agency, proceeded to the total payment, and in a single solution, of 326 million euros by way of taxes, penalties and interests, to define any slope with the Italian tax authorities. This was communicated by the Milan prosecutor’s office in a note.

To the European branch based in Ireland by the Mountain View giant the nucleus of Economic Financial Police of the GDF of Milancoordinated by the Sicilian Tiziana Prosecutor and prosecutors Giovanni Polizzi and Giovanna Cavalleri, she contested that it was a stable occult organization of a material type consisting of servers and the technological infrastructure essential for the functioning of the homonymous platform for the offer of services digital.

After the settlement agreement, the Prosecutor asked for the storage of the survey in which the crime of omitted presentation of the annual tax return produced in Italy was assumed.

On the basis of investigations of the Yellow Flames, against Google Ireland “they have been recognized – reads a note signed by the prosecutor Marcello Viola – the omitted presentation of the annual tax returns produced in Italy and the failure to present the annual replacement declarations tax, relating to the withholdings that should have applied to the royalties paid to foreign companies belonging to the same group, due to the use and exploitation, from Part of the stable organization, of all programs, algorithms, brands and intellectual properties constituting, as a whole, Google technology “.

During the investigations, the entire economic activity carried out by the American Over-Top company was therefore reconstructed, With particular reference to the revenues achieved with the sale of advertising spaceswith consequent contestation of the omitted declaration of the imposing incomes deriving from these commercial operations. Already 2017 Google, in the light of a similar investigation by the Milanese prosecutors, had signed a assessment with adhesion with the Agency for the Revenue for the tax years between 2009 and 2013 with the payment of over 306 at the center Millions of euros, including also the amounts referable to the two-year period 2014 and 2015 and to be an old dispute relating to the period 2002-2006.