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Apple and Google, IKEA and McDonalds multinational defended today that comply with the tax laws in Europe and said they “do not avoid taxes,” since are the governments who make the laws and include or not incentives and tax advantages that may benefit them.
Several multinational companies like Amazon, Fiat and Starbucks, in addition to the four mentioned, have been criticized for minimizing payment taxes through offices in European countries that enjoy better tax treatment, such as Luxembourg, Ireland or the Netherlands.
the vice President for European Operations Apple, Cathy Kearney, stressed before the special commission MEPs on tax rulings and tax reforms that the company “pays the taxes which we operate according to the law.”
Apple has its European headquarters in the Irish city of Cork, and is under investigation by European Commission (EC), who suspects illegal Ireland grants tax benefits.
“in Europe our taxes reflect our operations in procurement, distribution and sales. We paid the most in the US, “he said Kearney.
” Do not shirk taxes in Europe, “insisted the executive, who also noted that” (Apple) have not avoided any tax. “
it also said that the firm paid 12.5% in corporate taxes in Ireland and not only 2% claimed by the MEP Group of European Conservatives and Reformists Bernd Lucke.
“We pay US $ 13,200 million in taxes in the world, “he said, although the company was against spread the tax information of what you pay, considering it” confidential “.
the head of the economic policy google in Europe and other parts of the world, Adam Cohen, said the company supports a multilateral strategy within the OECD, the G20 and the EU, but asked avoid legal changes without order, because it could create “uncertainty, raise risks of double taxation and protracted disputes between jurisdictions “.
He stressed that are” governments that drafted the rules and companies fulfill them. “
” the business structure of Google complies law and decisions and reflects the tax incentives that have been developed during previous decades, “he said.
” This is not a singularity of Google. We use incentives and structures that are known, widely available and used by virtually all multinationals, “he said.
He added that, if the rules change, the multinational” will fulfill them. “
vice President for Corporate tax McDonalds, Irene Yates, also emphasized that the fast food chain “complies with applicable laws” and paid “on time and the amount due of all taxes owed in each country in which it operates “.
He recalled that between 2011 and 2015 the company paid in the EU over US $ 2,500 million in corporate taxes, regardless of other taxes such as social and immovable property or paid by franchisees.
“Our local companies are based in countries where they operate and are subject to the law that is applied” in each case, said Yates.
CEO Inter IKEA Group, Soren Hansen, he said for his part that the governing body and having through Ikea Systems (in the Netherlands) the intellectual property assets under which retailers Ikea and other brand users operate, ” pays taxes in line with laws and regulations, we operate where we operate “.
” the laws and regulations legislators develop them. We as a company will comply, “also said
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