INDONESIA’S tax office will investigate Alphabet Inc’s Google for suspected unpaid taxes from billions of dollars worth of advertising revenue, a senior finance ministry official said yesterday.
Muhammad Hanif, head of the special cases branch in the tax office, said Google’s refusal to cooperate after it was sent a letter in April requesting to be allowed to examine the company’s tax reports had raised suspicions.
He told a news conference that the probe would not be launched until the end of the month at the earliest.