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Irish tax laws save Google $ 3.1 billion

with Google – saved tax tricks in the past three years, $ 3.1 billion – quite legally. This has researched Bloomberg Business Week. This group uses the Irish tax laws with a technique known as “Double Irish” method.

“Double Irish” in this case is not a double whiskey, but a process with two Irish subsidiaries. The Irish laws that allow foreign corporations to operate with two daughters. One is stationed entirely in Ireland, but the other daughter pays license fees for intellectual property. The second is indeed represented in Ireland, but its management is located in a tax haven like Bermuda.

Transmits a company like Google now its intellectual property to one of Ireland’s daughters, it pays far less taxes on foreign income than the 35 percent that would be incurred in the U.S. – at best, only 2.4 percent.

Google has created this Google Ireland Holdings, and this in turn a subsidiary company called Google Ireland Limited. Google Ireland Limited is responsible for ad sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. For the rights to sell these ads, it pays royalties to its parent Google Ireland Holdings, whose administration has its headquarters in Bermuda.

Experts quoted by Bloomberg this method as being very widespread – not only but especially in the IT industry. They estimate that the United States deprives it of the 60 billion tax dollars.

Allegations can hardly make Google – in the interest of its shareholders, it must try to pay as little tax as possible within the law. However, the report also shows that Google is one of many globally operating corporations – and not a charity, as some seem to believe.

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