Cari amici, approfitto di questo scambio, oltre che per salutare tutti, per porre alla vostra attenzione la video registrazione di una tavola rotonda sul caso Apple/Irlanda da me organizzata a Dublino lo scorso 14 giugno presso la Science Gallery del Trinity College. L'evento fu molto difficile da organizzare. Tutti i rappresentati del governo e delle forze politiche irlandesi rifiutarono il mio invito (alcuni in modo sgarbato e vagamente aggressivo); non venne alcun rappresentante del mondo dei media e nessuno dei miei colleghi era presente. In una mail di un assistente del ministro competente, mi fu scritto (e la conservo) che il dibattito e la partecipazione del governo erano contro gli interessi del Paese (sic). Come si vede dal video, due degli esperti da me invitati, chiesero che la loro voce non fosse udibile né nel live streaming né nella video registrazione, Spero la visione possa essere di vostro interesse, viste queste premesse. Il video si trova sulla pagina Facebook della Science Gallery, nella sezione 'Video', con data 14 giugno: https://www.facebook.com/pg/scigallerydub/videos/?ref=page_internal Fatemi sapere cosa ne pensate. Un caro saluto, a presto, Giuseppe 2017-10-04 12:54 GMT-04:00 Andrea Glorioso <andrea@digitalpolicy.it>:
Grazie, Juan Carlos.
Solo per completezza e perche` non ci facciamo mai mancare niente, abbiamo anche portato l'Irlanda di fronte alla Corte di Giustizia Europea per inadempienza dell'obbligo di recuperare i 13 miliardi (e rotti) di tasse non fatte pagare ad Apple (decisione di agosto 2016). Ulteriori dettagli: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-3702_en.htm .
Ciao,
Andrea
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:46 AM, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin@polito.it> wrote:
European Commission - Press release State aid: Commission finds Luxembourg gave illegal tax benefits to Amazon worth around €250 million
Brussels, 4 October 2017
The European Commission has concluded that Luxembourg granted undue tax benefits to Amazon of around €250 million. This is illegal under EU State aid rules because it allowed Amazon to pay substantially less tax than other businesses. Luxembourg must now recover the illegal aid.
Commissioner Margrethe *Vestager*, in charge of competition policy, said "*Luxembourg gave illegal tax benefits to Amazon. As a result, almost three quarters of Amazon's profits were not taxed. In other words, **Amazon was allowed to pay four times less tax than other local companies subject to the same national tax rules**. This is illegal under EU State aid rules. Member States cannot give selective tax benefits to multinational groups that are not available to others."*
Following an in-depth investigation launched in October 2014 <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-1105_en.htm>, the Commission has concluded that a tax ruling issued by Luxembourg in 2003, and prolonged in 2011, lowered the tax paid by Amazon in Luxembourg without any valid justification.
The tax ruling enabled Amazon to shift the vast majority of its profits from an Amazon group company that is subject to tax in Luxembourg (*Amazon EU*) to a company which is not subject to tax (*Amazon Europe Holding Technologies*). In particular, the tax ruling endorsed the payment of a royalty from Amazon EU to Amazon Europe Holding Technologies, which significantly reduced Amazon EU's taxable profits.
The Commission's investigation showed that the level of the royalty payments, endorsed by the tax ruling, was inflated and did not reflect economic reality. On this basis, the Commission concluded that the tax ruling granted a selective economic advantage to Amazon by allowing the group to pay less tax than other companies subject to the same national tax rules. In fact, the ruling enabled Amazon to avoid taxation on three quarters of the profits it made from all Amazon sales in the EU.
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Continua qui: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-3701_en.htm
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