The Uber smartphone app, used to book cabs using its service, is pictured on a smartphone in front of a cab in Paris, December 10, 2014. ELIOT BLONDET/AFP
Ride-sharing group Uber has been told by French authorities that it owes €1.7 billion in unpaid payroll taxes, according to a media report on Monday, February 2. According to online publication Revue21, Uber avoided paying the taxes by misrepresenting its contracts with its French drivers, in the US company's latest dispute in Europe over the status of its drivers.
In a 142-page document seen by Revue21, the unit collecting social charges in the Paris region concluded that Uber "knowingly disguised an employment relationship as a business contract to evade its obligations as an employer" to some 71,000 drivers between 2019 and 2022.
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