{"id":216774,"date":"2016-05-24T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=216774"},"modified":"2016-05-24T13:12:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T13:12:17","slug":"googles-headquarters-in-paris-raided-over-tax-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=216774","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s headquarters in Paris raided over tax payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Paris headquarters have been raided as part of an investigation into the U.S. company&#8217;s tax payments, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 100 tax officials and investigators from financial police are involved in the raid, which started at 5 a.m. local time, according to Le Parisien.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters, Le Monde and BBC confirmed the raid, citing police sources.<\/p>\n<p>A Google spokesperson told Mashable: \u201cWe comply with French law and are cooperating fully with the authorities to answer their questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google is accused of owing France \u20ac1.6 billion ($1.8 billion; \u00a31.3 billion) in unpaid taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The UK struck a \u00a3130 million settlement with Google earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Paris headquarters have been raided as part of an investigation into the U.S. company&#8217;s tax payments, reports said. Around 100 tax officials and investigators from financial police are involved in the raid, which started at 5 a.m. local time, according to Le Parisien. Reuters, Le Monde and BBC confirmed the raid, citing police sources. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":216775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}