Google’s Madrid offices raided in tax probe: internal source


  • TECH
  • Friday, 01 Jul 2016

Officials who were conducting a tax probe at one of Google's Madrid offices leave the premises in Madrid, Spain, June 30, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas

MADRID: Google’s offices in Madrid were being searched in a tax probe on June 30, an internal source said, just over a month after police raided the Internet giant in Paris in a similar investigation. 

The US firm is one of several multinational corporations that have come under fire in Europe for paying extremely low taxes by shifting revenue across borders in an often complex web of financial arrangements. 

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