APPLE(2'5%の納税)、GOOGLE(3%のみ納税)、MICROSOFTはアメリカ合衆国内では47億0000'0000の販売を上げ(税金は純益の56'1%、アメリカ合衆国の法人税は35%)、外国では76億0000'0000ドルの売り上げを挙げ、純益は23億4100万0000ドルなのに、税金はアイルランドで法人税を2億4800万0000ユーロ(8%)のみ納税。大企業のアイルランドなどへの利益転送で合法的大脱税!
Google, Apple y Microsoft pagan impuestos mínimos fuera de EE UU
La firma de Steve Jobs es la que menos tributa, con un 2,5% del beneficio
Google usa paraísos fiscales para pagar solo un 2,4% de impuestos
Hacienda investiga los impuestos que declara Google en España
Apple factura en Irlanda el 99% de sus ventas en España
Miguel Jiménez Madrid 30 ENE 2012 - 14:12 CET
Google, Apple and Microsoft pay minimum taxes outside the U.S.
The signing of Steve Jobs is the least taxed, with 2.5% of the benefit
Google uses tax havens to pay only 2.4% tax
Treasury investigates Google declaring taxes in Spain
Apple bill in Ireland 99% of its sales in Spain
Miguel Jimenez Madrid 30 ENE 2012 - 14:12 CET
Three of the most popular in the world. Its products are used worldwide, are among the most successful companies, higher revenues, higher profits and higher stock market value. They were created by visionaries, developers have the best of the best technicians. And so you see, they also have the best tax consultants. Google, Apple and Microsoft save billions of dollars a year in taxes thanks to tax engineering maneuvers that allow minimally taxed by the benefits achieved outside the United States.
Late last week, Google posted its annual report for 2011 on the Securities Market Commission of the United States (the SEC, for its acronym in English). The SEC has forced companies to disaggregate what benefits and taxes paid on those profits in the United States and in other countries. The contrast is brutal. Google, for example, managed some 7,600 million gross profit dollars abroad, well above the 4,700 million achieved in your country. However, while the company spent on income taxes of $ 2.341 million at home, abroad only paid 248 million, which mostly went to the Irish Treasury.
Google and Apple have taken to the extreme tactics of Microsoft to bill their overseas sales from countries with low taxation. The company founded by Bill Gates acknowledges that sales channeled through Puerto Rico, Singapore and Ireland. Google has gone further: "Virtually all the benefit of overseas operations was achieved by an Irish subsidiary," admits the company in its annual report just published.
The thing does not stop there. Google not only takes advantage of billing from Ireland, but also that Irish law permits otherwise transfer the benefits to companies abroad, escaping even the 12.5% rate of Irish corporation. Benefits end in firms located in tax havens that do not tax the profits.
Ireland, Singapore and tax havens allow operation
Google and other companies sell or license to subsidiaries in low-tax countries with patents, technology, intellectual property rights and other intangible assets. A matrices interested in selling those rights cheaply to its subsidiaries to not pay taxes in the United States. For Google, the rights receives a Bermuda company which, in turn, the Irish subsidiary pays billions of dollars. The money passed earlier by a Dutch company to get tax breaks.
With these and other financial engineering maneuvers, Google pays just over a 3% tax on profits outside the United States, Apple, only 2.5%, and Microsoft, 8%, according to the annual reports of fiscal 2011 registered with the SEC. On average, the three firms paid a 4.8% tax on profits abroad by non-Americans and 56.1% in their own country. The U.S. figure includes both federal and state taxes and sometimes is somewhat distorted by deferred tax adjustments. The nominal rate of corporation tax in the U.S. is 35%. When benefits are repatriated abroad have achieved at a lower rate, taxed on the difference, in general.
Amazon and Facebook use similar schemes to avoid paying the Treasury
Amazon has not yet submitted its 2011 annual report. In the two previous years, your benefit outside the United States was subject to a tax of 3.6% and 6%. According to Bloomberg, Facebook has designed a scheme similar to Google or Apple, with companies in the Cayman Islands as little as possible to pay taxes on the profits abroad.
These operations leave the estates of the countries where these firms generate most of their income with little taxation. Apple invoice from Ireland 99% of sales achieves its main subsidiary in Spain. Google bills also from Ireland the hundreds of millions of earnings from its Spanish clients. The Spanish subsidiary acts as a sales force that their spending reinvoices Google Ireland and Google Inc. In 2010, Google Spain even declared losses. Amazon sales invoice from Luxembourg in Spain.
Apple collects 54 000 million in overseas subsidiaries
This type of scheme has aroused suspicion by the authorities. The SEC demanded an explanation from Google about the level of taxes that support within and outside the United States and its tax returns are being investigated in several countries, including the United States, France or Spain, inquiries about the company considered routine.
"We have an obligation to our shareholders to establish an efficient tax structure, and our current structure is consistent with the tax regulations in all countries where we operate," he explained last week, a spokesman for Google.
The problem for some of these companies is that they can not freely use the money to escape the taxman. If repatriate profits, would be forced to pay tax on them, so I assume that indefinitely reinvested abroad. Thus, the profits stay abroad, which in America is, in turn, controversial.
The stock funds abroad that U.S. companies accumulate fat steadily and exceeds one trillion dollars. At the end of last year, Apple's subsidiaries abroad had accumulated 54 300 million in cash and securities, those of Microsoft treasured 45,000 million dollars from Google and others had 21,200 million. "Our current plans do not show the need to repatriate funds to fund our U.S. operations," says Google.
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