Facebook France has accepted paying more than 100 million euros in taxes, Reuters reported.

France, which is pushing to revise international tax rules for digital companies like Facebook, Google Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon, said large tech groups pay too little taxes.

Current international tax rules legally allow companies to direct sales made in local European markets to their regional headquarters. Some tech companies, including Facebook, have European or international headquarters in countries with relatively low corporate tax rates, such as Ireland.

A Facebook spokesman said that the French tax authorities audited Facebook accounts between 2009 and 2018, with the result that the subsidiary agreed to pay a total of € 106 million.

He did not go into details of the agreement. The French tax administration also did not provide details.

The spokesperson also said that since 2018, the company has decided to include its ad sales in France in its annual reports covering France.

He said the company paid € 8.5 million in income taxes in 2019 in France, almost 50% more than a year earlier.