据路透社报道,当地时间5月24日凌晨,法国警方和数十名电脑专家以涉嫌逃税为由突击搜查了位于巴黎的谷歌公司法国总部。检方怀疑谷歌在法国拖欠16亿欧元税款。报道称,谷歌在大多数欧洲国家都只交很少的税款,缘由是谷歌财务报告几乎把所有收入都登记在低税率的爱尔兰,而谷歌欧洲总部就设在爱尔兰首都都柏林。 According to Reuters, local time on the early morning of May 24, the French police and dozens of computer experts on the grounds of suspected tax evasion raided Google headquarters in Paris, France. Prosecutors suspect that Google owed 1.6 billion euros in France. The report said that Google in the majority of European countries only pay very little tax because Google’s financial report almost all of the revenue registered in Ireland at a low tax rate, while Google’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.