With 2022 coming to a close, it’s time for this year’s ultimate award:
Who is tax dodger 🤑 of the year?
(explanations below)
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1602245671637188608
Using the oddities of the US tax system, @elonmusk could avoid billions in capital gains tax by buying Twitter with his Tesla shares. It’s not just us Tweeps who suffer the Musk takeover, it’s the US treasury too!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-26/musk-s-untaxed-wealth-opens-a-path-to-twitter-riling-democrats#xj4y7vzkg
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1602245673545605120
In exchange for billions of € in government support, @KLM promised to stop helping its pilotes to set up tax avoidance schemes. They took the money, but seem to have forgot about the promise.
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2413981-klm-maakt-ondanks-belofte-geen-einde-aan-onwenselijke-belastingontwijking-piloten
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1602245682064244736
Pfizer made record profits thanks to its Covid vaccine. Great job @pfizer! But of course that doesn’t mean the rules don’t apply to you. You can’t dodge €1.2 billion in taxes via US and NL shell companies, Pfizer!
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/italian-tax-authorities-investigate-pfizer-profits-sources-2022-10-27/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1602245685742821379
The #Uberfiles exposed @Uber being in cahoots with the Dutch tax authorities to avoid taxes throughout Europe. Can Uber thrive only when they don’t play by the rules?
https://www.icij.org/investigations/uber-files/uber-tax-havens-dodge-drivers/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/paultang/status/1602245677307895808