Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Luxembourg Tax Scandal

 Hiding Billions In Corporate Tax Dollars


 

 

 

Luxembourg and EU Political Leadership Faces Massive Corporate Tax Scandal From Leaked Documents


Tens of thousands of leaked confidential documents have shown that Luxembourg has been making special tax deals with transnational corporation that have allowed them to avoid billions of dollars in taxes. According to a report from the International Consortium of Professional Journalists:

Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny European duchy, leaked documents show.
These companies appear to have channeled hundreds of billions of dollars through Luxembourg and saved billions of dollars in taxes, according to a review of nearly 28,000 pages of confidential documents conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and a team of more than 80 journalists from 26 countries.





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