Indonesia to chase Google for 5 years of back taxes

Jakarta

INDONESIA plans to pursue Alphabet Inc's Google for five years of back taxes, and the search giant could face a bill of more than US$400 million for 2015 alone if it is found to have avoided payments, a senior tax official said.

Muhammad Hanif, head of the tax office's special cases branch, told Reuters that its investigators went to Google's local office in Indonesia on Monday.