Google has allegedly been using strategic accounting methods to skip out on taxes in the UK. Bloomberg Business reports Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., will pay £130 million, or roughly $185 million USD in back-taxes to the country.

Making over $18 billion in revenue from 2006 to 2011, the tech giant paid just $16 million in "UK corporation tax." Along with the settlement, Google will change its approach to UK taxes, now paying tax on "revenue from UK-based advertisers, which reflects the size and scope" of its business in the UK, according to a statement made by the company.


Google isn't out of trouble just yet, as the company is currently under scrutiny for the same reason in the US and other European countries. The $185 million owed to the UK government could be considered pocket change for the company—Google is said to make that amount in a matter of days—but it could owe a lot more if other countries get their way.

In other Google news, it was recently revealed that Google made a $1 billion deal with Apple in 2014 to keep the company's search engine as the default on iOS devices. Google paid Apple a percentage of its revenue made from searches on Apple handhelds.