Well, for a multinational corporation, the sentence still makes sense and doesn’t seem gratuitous or sensationalized, as they could say they shifted $39B of UK

Well, for a multinational corporation, the sentence still makes sense and doesn’t seem gratuitous or sensationalized, as they could say they shifted $39B of UK profit to Ireland or something. It does leave a vague and perhaps intentional implication of crossing some kind of border, so they could have said “$39 billion of profit in the incorporated US”, I suppose.