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lunes, 30 de enero de 2012
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
Miguel Jiménez Madrid 30 ENE 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Google, Apple and Microsoft pay minimal taxes outside the U.S.
The signing of Steve Jobs is the least taxed, with 2.5% of income
Miguel Jiménez Madrid 30 ENE 2012
They are three of the most popular companies in the world . Its products are used worldwide , are among the most successful companies , higher income, higher profits and greater 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 them minimally taxed for 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 other countries are . The contrast is brutal . Google , for example, managed some 7,600 million gross profit abroad, well above the 4.700 million who got in their country. However, while the company spent on income tax of $ 2.341 million at home , abroad only paid 248 million , which mostly went to the Irish Treasury.
Ireland, Singapore and tax havens allow them to dodge the Treasury
Amazon and Facebook use similar schemes to save taxes
Microsoft invoice from Puerto Rico , Singapore and Ireland to tax less
Apple collects 54,000 million in foreign subsidiaries
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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 recognizes that sales channeled through Puerto Rico , Singapore and Ireland. Google has gone further: " Practically 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 invoice from Ireland , but Irish law that allows somehow transfer the benefits to companies abroad , escaping even the 12.5 % rate of Irish corporation . Benefits end in ENTITIES firms in tax havens that do not tax profits.
Google and other companies sell or license to subsidiaries in low-tax countries with patents , technology, intellectual property and other intangible assets. A parent interested in selling those rights cheaply to its subsidiaries to not pay taxes in the United States. For Google , the rights awarded a Bermuda company which , in turn , the Irish subsidiary pays billions of dollars. The money first goes through a Dutch company to take advantage of tax breaks .
With these and other financial engineering maneuvers , Google pays just over 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 4.8 % tax on foreign profits 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 adjustments on deferred taxes . The nominal corporate tax rate in America is 35% . When benefits were achieved abroad at a lower rate , taxed on the difference , generally repatriate .
Amazon has not yet submitted its 2011 annual report . In the previous two years , your benefit from outside the United States was subject to a tax of 3.6 % and 6 %. According to Bloomberg , Facebook has designed a similar scheme Google or Apple , with companies in the Cayman Islands to be taxed as little as possible by profits abroad.
These operations leave the estate of the countries where these firms generate most of their income with little taxation. Apple invoice from Ireland 99% of sales achieved its main subsidiary in Spain . Google also charges from Ireland hundreds of millions of earnings from its Canadian customers . The Spanish subsidiary acts as a sales force that rebill your expenses or Google Inc. Google Ireland In 2010, Google Spain even declared losses. Amazon sales invoice from Luxembourg in Spain .
This type of scheme has aroused suspicion by the authorities . The SEC demanded an explanation from Google on the level of taxes that support inside 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 present structure is compliant with the tax regulations in all countries where we operate ," explained a spokesman for Google last week.
The problem for some of these companies is that they can not freely dispose of the money beyond the Treasury. 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.
Bag 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 billion and those of Google 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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