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I think it's a shame they are using these kinds of aggressive tax planning tactics, while still marketing themselves as being Swedish/Nordic. And to put this vi
by stse 17y ago
I think it's a shame they are using these kinds of aggressive tax planning tactics, while still marketing themselves as being Swedish/Nordic. And to put this view in context, Sweden does not have the same social system as the US. But this would be aggressive even for an American company.
- henrikschroder 17y agoLet's just say that everyone up here doesn't love our high taxes. :-) You could of course wish that IKEA would pay its corporate taxes like a good corporate citizen, but maybe the same traits that makes Ingvar Kamprad want to save expenses on everything, including taxes, is the same trait that has also made IKEA the huge success it is?
- stse 17y agoExpressen recently listed the "top" tax-payers in Sweden [1]. What's interesting is that the second wealthiest person in Sweden after Kamprad, H&M owner Stefan Perssson, tops the list and pays more tax than the ten following people combined. It's also interesting to find one of the investors in Skype at #4 and one of the founders of MySQL at #11. http://www.expressen.se/ekonomi/1.1797308/h-m-miljardar-betalar-mest-i-skatt http://www.expressen.se/ekonomi/1.1797308/h-m-miljardar-beta...