The Swedish Ikea would he have done everything to pay the least possible taxes? So says the elected Greens / EFA group in the European Parliament in an investigation report, submitted to the European Commission on Saturday. World number of furnishings would have implemented a real “strategy”, allowing him to avoid more “one billion euros” to tax.
Specifically, “IKEA has basically used loopholes offered by the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg,” write the MEPs in a statement. This report described one of the preferred techniques of the group, they said. Each store of the Swedish chain makes payment of royalties ( “royalties”) to a subsidiary based in the Netherlands, which only acts as a “conduit”. Royalties in and out of the Netherlands untaxed and result largely in Liechtenstein. Result, only for the year 2014, the investigation report estimated “the tax loss to € 35 million for Germany, € 24 million for France and 7.5 million euros for Belgium “.
The LuxLeaks scandal in the background
Green MEPs have sent a letter to Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, and Pierre Moscovici, Commissioner European taxation. They invite them to initiate a review procedure to verify the existence of a possible infringement of EU competition law. The European Commission has taken note of this report and will study it in detail, “said Vanessa Mock, spokesman for the Commission, in charge of financial services and taxation.
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Since the outbreak of LuxLeaks scandal in November 2014, which had deeply damaged the inauguration of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker as the new President of the Commission, Brussels stepped up its fight against tax opacity. LuxLeaks had highlighted a large-scale tax evasion of multinational system and particularly the role played by some states, such Luxembourg, at a time when Jean-Claude Juncker was both prime minister and finance minister.
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