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I doubt the deal was in good faith. They have an army of lawyers so most likely they knew about this it but took the risk.
by themihai 10y ago
I doubt the deal was in good faith. They have an army of lawyers so most likely they knew about this it but took the risk.
- Someone 10y agoI don't think that implies not being in good faith. Bad faith would be if they knew the EU would rule this illegal, but still continued with this. You pay your army of lawyers avoid that. You want to walk extremely close to the edge, but not drop from it.
- themihai 10y agoThe fact is that it was illegal. It didn't need a rule to decide its legality. I can only speculate that they didn't expect to be forced to pay all the tax back. Perhaps they expected a kind of warning given the local government was on their side. There were/are others doing this (i.e. Microsoft,Google etc) so they decided to stick with the herd.