French probe into Google tax affairs

France’s inquiry into Google’s tax affairs is coming to an end and the results may be announced within the next six months, Technology minister Fleur Pellerin said yesterday.

“It appears that Google, Facebook or others, who are located in France, are not submitted to the same conditions, as far as tax and Vat are concerned, as the French players,” Pellerin said in an interview with Bloomberg.

“That doesn’t set the right conditions for a fair competition,” he said.