イギリス議会は、コーヒー連鎖店網のSTARBUCKS(スターバックス)がイギリスでこの14年間に37億5000万0000ユーロの売り上げを挙げたのに、税金を1075万0000ユーロしか払っていない(実際はたぶん1億1000万0000ユーロの納税義務)なぜなのなのかと、詰問したが十分な回答は得られず。AMAZON、GOOGLE も質問される。利益転送の会計操作して利益を法人税の安いアイルランド(12'5%),オランダ、ルクセンブルグで申告。合法的な脱税。
Reino Unido intenta, sin éxito, saber por qué las corporaciones eluden impuestos
Grandes empresas se defienden en el Parlamento británico de una supuesta evasión fiscal
Amazon, Starbucks y Google comparecen ante el Comité de Cuentas Públicas
La sesión de la Comisión de Cuentas Públicas termina sin éxito
Francia exige 200 millones a Amazon por impuestos atrasados
Walter Oppenheimer Londres 12 NOV 2012 - 20:19 CET
UK tries unsuccessfully to know why corporations evade taxes
Large companies are defended in the British Parliament in an alleged tax evasion
Amazon, Starbucks and Google appear before the Public Accounts Committee
The meeting of the Public Accounts Committee terminates unsuccessfully
France demands 200 million back tax Amazon
Walter Oppenheimer London 12 NOV 2012 - 20:19 CET
It is well known that large corporations do whatever it takes to avoid paying taxes, or minimize the tax bill. But when Reuters revealed after a four-month investigation that Starbucks has only paid 8.6 million pounds (10.75 million euros) in respect of corporation tax in 14 years of activity in the UK, burned all alarms. During those years, the U.S. coffee chain has billed about 3,750 million euros to its British customers.
The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons on Monday questioned patterns Starbucks, Amazon and Google to find out why so few pay taxes. From their answers just came out all clear, except for one thing: most of those taxes just accrue at a rate much lower than the UK, other European countries, such as Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
France demands 200 million back tax Amazon
The Amazon online trading firm revealed during his speech to defend against the charges of evading tax in the UK than in France has received a demand for $ 252 million (about 198 million euros) from tax authorities in respect of back taxes, interest and penalties in connection with "the allocation of income between foreign jurisdictions." Amazon, meanwhile, said he thinks fighting the claim, which requires the relative amounts to between 2006 and 2010.
Although today is the United Kingdom who has sat Google, Amazon and Starbucks to give explanations, France is also pursuing companies that, despite having a very extensive business in that country, evade paying taxes. Two weeks ago, Google demanded a payment of 1,000 million euros in back taxes.
Troy Alstead, Starbucks CFO UK, admitted that the company channeled much of their income to the Netherlands because it has a tax treaty with that country. The trick is in the royalties: Starbucks UK has to pay royalties to sister companies in the Netherlands and the United States. Starbucks pays for these royalties a combined rate of 16% in the Netherlands and the United States, compared with 24% who would pay in the UK.
Alstead said they are dissatisfied with the performance of the chain in Britain and the margins are very narrow in that country, but did not know what to say when a deputy asked why were not so bad if things are going.
The Amazon executive, Andrew Cecil, got on my nerves to the Members for their evasive answers and his apparent ignorance of the intricacies of the business. Although Amazon has explained, more than 15,000 employees in Britain, sales through amazon.co.uk is allotted center in Luxembourg, where only 500 people work.
Matt Brittin, head of Google in northern Europe, was the most direct of the three executives. Input admitted that the European business operates from Ireland because the corporate tax (12%) is the most favorable and the intellectual property rights of the company outside the United States are also in Bermuda for tax reasons. Brittin defended the legality of the proceedings, to which the chairman of the committee, Margaret Hodge, said, "We are not accusing him of acting illegally, but to be immoral."
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The tax evasion by multinational corporations is not at all a problem exclusively British. The French authorities, for example, Amazon will claim to EUR 200 million in back taxes, a debt that the company rejects, and already 1,000 million exigiron Google. But in the UK is focusing the complaint by such evasion. A protest group begin to occupy local Starbucks in December to coincide with the presentation of the budget in the Commons. The idea is to provide in these local social services that the government is closing adjustment, such as nurseries and shelters for women.
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