France has no intentions of backing down on Google taxes, French finance minister Michel Sapin confirmed, after French tax authorities raided the Parisian offices of the Silicon Valley search giant last week.

Sapin said he didn’t “do deals like Britain” but would follow the letter of the law, taxing Google the maximum amount owed. "We'll go all the way. There could be other cases," he told European journalists on Sunday.

French authorities are said to be pursuing some €1.6bn (£1.2bn) in corporation tax and VAT from Google, after the Californian company paid just €5m of taxes in France on €225.4m revenues in 2014.