Vestagers udtalelse om, at skattefritagelsen af en vis del af McDonald`s overskud i Luxembourg ikke er ulovlig statsstøtte
(WorldNews Denmark)

* Please check against delivery * The Commission has today decided that the non-taxation of certain McDonald`s profits in Luxembourg is not illegal State aid. Our case concerned two tax rulings granted by Luxembourg to McDonald`s in 2009. These exempt from taxation in Luxembourg all franchise profits that McDonald`s receives from third parties operating McDonald`s outlets in Europe, the Ukraine and Russia. In the first ruling, Luxembourg falsely assumed that these profits were taxable in the US. They were not. In the second ruling, Luxembourg then removed any obligation on McDonald`s to prove that the revenues were taxable in the US. This means that these profits were neither taxed in...