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Side note: Both Luxembourg and Austria have so far filed charges against Deutsche and the BND causing diplomatic stir.

Oh and Amazon's head of tax was Luxembourg Honorary Consul to the Seattle are, hum.

In Luxembourg and Australia it is 1 month, in Spain it is 15 days.

That percentage is even higher in countries like Luxembourg and Switzerland.

In Europe, paypal registered as an actual bank (in luxembourg).

For example, those profits made in Germany are offset by purely fictitious charges from an entity in Luxembourg or Ireland, so no actual tax is due in Germany.

If we're talking the last thirty years or so, I can think of Luxembourg and Ireland, although if you're going back 20 years, I guess there's Italy too.

The current state of the US tax code is a great example why Microsoft paid a whopping $2bn for something like Minecraft (Sweden based), or an even larger amount for Luxembourg based Skype.

(It was, as you might know, not to be placed directly under KfW but under the IfG in Luxembourg probably precisely so that it was not under Germany's /direct/ control.) It should in no way whatsoever have been placed in Athens under Greek management, though!

No, "almost certainly" means the preliminary ruling found against Amazon/Luxembourg [1] but the final ruling has not taken place yet.

Germany was in no way alone in wanting collateral and the rest of the Northern EZ was fine with having Germany/Luxembourg in control of the "Treuhandfonds".

"The group made $8.3bn (£5.3bn) of worldwide sales from British online shoppers but for 11 years all these internet transactions have been booked in Luxembourg."

"The group made $8.3bn (£5.3bn) of worldwide sales from British online shoppers but for 11 years all these internet transactions have been booked in Luxembourg." Written in such a way to make the average person think amazon make £5.3bn profit - which of course they don't.

It is not a matter of prosecution, they will have to pay back the money to Luxembourg.

The shared currency and borders reduce costs of intra-EU trade (particularly beneficial for tiny landlocked countries like, say, Luxembourg).

Actually, the ruling is against Luxembourg.