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This time, yes, because it's about privacy and the CNIL can't do much more than 150,000€. But France also asks Google for 1 billion € of unpaid taxes over the
by p4bl0 13y ago
This time, yes, because it's about privacy and the CNIL can't do much more than 150,000€.
But France also asks Google for 1 billion € of unpaid taxes over the last years, and this time I guess they will really try to avoid paying (hopefully they won't be able to, but we'll see).
- RBerenguel 13y agoAmerican billion or European billion? In this case I think the distinction is important (I guess it's the first case... the latter would be... big, very big, hugely, mindbogglingly big)
- p4bl0 13y agoLike I said, 1 billion €, so a "European billion". Yes it is a lot of money. But even more so is the amount of money that Google earned in France and managed not to declare to the fisc (the French tax administration).
- RBerenguel 13y agoSure, it's almost the definition of tax (it should be less than the amount earned.) I hope they pay, it's not like we are floating in money in Europe currently.
- Luc 13y agoNah, it's a thousand million, a milliard in other words. It's confusing. https://www.google.com/search?q=google+france+milliard+impots https://www.google.com/search?q=google+france+milliard+impot... The anglosphere uses short scale billions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...
- p4bl0 13y agoYa I didn't know that. I thought his question was € vs $, which is why I didn't quite understood it. Thanks for picking up my mistake.
- Zarel 13y agoTo clarify, a European billion is an American trillion [1] (an American billion is a European milliard), which is why RBerenguel said "the latter would be... big, very big, hugely, mindbogglingly big." [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- ikusalic 13y agoJust to clarify: in continental Europe and USA billion means different number. [0] I'd guess USA billion, as it's about taxes and taxes can't be bigger than what Google is worth... [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- p4bl0 13y agoHe, I didn't know that, thanks for sharing.
- logfromblammo 13y agoDon't assume. They are French taxes, after all. It's entirely possible that Google could owe them more than the net worth of the planet.