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07 Sept 2025

Google agrees to pay Italy £282 million to settle tax evasion investigation

Google agrees to pay Italy £282 million to settle tax evasion investigation

Italian prosecutors said on Wednesday that they are seeking to have a tax evasion investigation against Google dropped after the tech giant agreed to pay a 326 million euro (£282 million) settlement.

Prosecutors in Milan had opened an investigation against Google for failure to pay taxes on earnings in Italy from 2015-2019.

The probe focused on revenues from the sale of advertising, and cited the presence of servers and other infrastructure in Italy.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Tech giant Google previously paid more than one billion US dollars (£793 million) to French authorities to settle a years-long dispute over allegations of tax fraud.

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