Google tax case shelved
'Impossible' to gauge earnings says prosecutor
25 November, 21:55
MILAN - A Milan preliminary hearings judge on Wednesday shelved a tax-dodging case against Goggle at the request of the prosecutor. The prosecutor told the judge that it had been impossible to measure Google's earnings in the period in question, from January 2002 to December 2007, and therefore impossible to say how much tax it should have paid.
The Internet giant has consistently stated it paid the right amount of taxes. The probe was opened in 2007 by Italian tax police who suspected two Google managers of tax evasion. In two separate cases, Google is being probed for alleged abuse of its dominant position and is on trial in Milan over the brief posting of a video showing a teenage Down's Syndrome sufferer being bullied at school. The Internet giant denies all charges.
