{"id":17272,"date":"2015-12-03T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T14:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.ldaily.ua\/?p=17272"},"modified":"2015-12-03T17:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T14:01:57","slug":"europe-suspects-mcdonalds-in-violation-of-tax-legislation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/novosti\/europe-suspects-mcdonalds-in-violation-of-tax-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe suspects McDonald&#8217;s in violation of tax legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"dt-single-image\" href=\"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2012-01-0404-mcdonalds.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17261\" src=\"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2012-01-0404-mcdonalds-267x200.jpg\" alt=\"2012-01-0404-mcdonalds\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" title=\"\"><\/a><em>The chain of one of the world&#8217;s most popular fast food restaurants McDonald&#8217;s is suspected in violating tax laws in Europe. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, the European Commissioner for Competition Margaret Vestager plans to announce a formal investigation into tax treaties with Luxembourg McDonald&#8217;s &#8211; reports Reuters with reference to informed sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The investigation is scheduled to consider McDonald&#8217;s violation of European legislation. The company allegedly was trying to circumvent the law by moving profits in corporate offices and to pay the least tax.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spokesman for the European Commission Ricardo Cardoso declined to comment on the situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">McDonald&#8217;s representatives said that have not yet received any formal charges and expressed confidence in the fact that any investigation would be resolved favorably.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;McDonald&#8217;s operations in line with European tax law, the company pays a large amount of corporate income tax. As a fact, from 2010 to 2014 the amount of income tax paid by the McDonald&#8217;s company \u00a0in the European Union amounted to more than $ 2.1 billion. In addition, the property tax, social taxes, and others are paid.&#8221; \u2013 McDonald&#8217;s says in their message.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tax activity of the McDonald&#8217;s company \u00a0has long aroused the suspicions of NGOs.For example, well-known figures of the London War or Want accused the popular fast-food chain that they did not pay in full to the European treasury $ 1 billion between 2009 and 2013. On its website the organization &#8220;shamed\u201d McDonald&#8217;s for such an attitude to the European tax and the laws, and urged regulators to address the issue of the investigation of this case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: www.usatoday.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17262,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-17272","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/17272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=17272"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=17272"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=17272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}