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Google to pay $1B to resolve French tax disputes
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Jaclyn Jaeger2019-09-13T16:31:00
Google will pay $1 billion in penalties and back taxes, putting to an end a pair of investigations in France into whether the tech giant properly declared the full extent of its activities in the country.
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