Facebook said on Sunday having paid 4.63 million euros in corporate income tax for 2015 in the UK, 2% of its local sales.
Facebook began gradually to pay taxes. This Sunday, the hegemonic social network said it had paid 4.17 million pounds (4.63 million euros) in corporate taxes for 2015 in the UK, having been severely criticized for n ' be paid only 4327 pounds of taxes in 2014. the amount was lower than the average amount of taxes and contributions paid by a single worker.
Puncture 2015 remains modest. These taxes represent less than 2% of the 211 million pounds of financial returns that the American company has declared to have been in the UK for the year 2015, according to the accounting documents published on the website of the British company register. But she should go to increase. Facebook announced last March that advertising revenue from its major UK customers are now reported in the UK and Ireland, where it has its European headquarters, thus inducing a significant increase in taxes.
"We all pay taxes under British law", welcomed a spokesman for the social network. As in the rest of Europe, the issue of low taxes paid by some multinational companies is controversial. Earlier this year, Google is committed to pay the British Treasury £ 130 million in back taxes for the period 2005 to 2015.
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