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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11489

13 February 2016
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) taxation
Greens denounce IKEA's tax practices

Brussels, 12/02/2016 (Agence Europe) - The Swedish company, Ikea, avoided paying a billion euros of tax by using tax havens within the EU, according to a report commissioned by the Greens/EFA group at the European Parliament and published in the early evening of Friday 12 February.

In a press release, the Greens/EFA explain: “One of the techniques is shifting royalties from each IKEA store to a subsidiary in the Netherlands, which acts as a conduit. The royalties go in and out of the...

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