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Like 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 no
by p4bl0 13y ago
Like 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