Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker
(Credit: Mozilla)
A nearly four-year tax audit of the Mozilla Foundation is finally over. And it looks like the foundation got off easy by handing over just $1.5 million to the U.S. government.
Mozilla Foundation Chair Mitchell Baker announced in a blog post today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) closed its audit and agreed to settle with the company.
"I'm happy to note that we've settled the issues raised and the IRS recently closed the audit," she wrote. "We entered into a settlement, under which the Mozilla Foundation paid the IRS US $1.5 million."
The IRS launched its audit of the Mozilla Foundation in 2008 after the foundation claimed that $66 million collected under its partnership with Google were royalty contributions and therefore shouldn't be taxed. Mozilla earned money from Google at the time by featuring the search engine prominently in two ways: a default start page with a Google search box, and a search bar in the upper right corner of the Firefox interface.
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