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Google paid just 6.7 million euros in corporate taxes in 2015 in France by booking revenues for its online empire at its European subsidiary in low-tax Ireland. (photo: AFP)

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Google challenges record EU antitrust fine in court

The world's most popular Internet search engine launched its appeal two months after it was fined by the European...

12 Sept 2017 3:27 AM

Austria said in January that it would tax firms like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Alibaba 3 percent of their advertising revenue from within Austria.

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Austria pressing ahead with digital tax after EU-wide plan fails

Austria said it would hold off on implementing that plan until an EU finance ministers' meeting this week.

16 March 2019 4:39 AM

$Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing on \Online Platforms and Market Power\ in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 29, 2020. While forced breakups of what the chairman of the panel described as monopolies may appear unlikely, the wide scrutiny of Big Tech points toward possible new restrictions on its power. (Photo | AFP)$ Technology