@Potatos_are_not_friends to Reddit • 7 months agoCoincidence? Or is IKEA doing some astroturfing to hide bad news?imagemessage-square16arrow-up1124arrow-down112
arrow-up1112arrow-down1imageCoincidence? Or is IKEA doing some astroturfing to hide bad news?@Potatos_are_not_friends to Reddit • 7 months agomessage-square16
minus-square@jeffwlink61•edit-27 months agoI’m inclined to believe it’s honest. Someone probably read the first article then decided to google IKEA. They do sketchy stuff by registering the parent company as a non-profit though, don’t they? Edit: can’t find a good source but it sounds like the tax evasion may have (at least partially) ended
minus-square@thefactthatlink24•7 months agoIt also gives a very positive spin to Ingvar Kamprad who was a literal Nazi sympathiser/fascist during WWII, friends with Swedish fascist Per Engdahl and recruiter for the Swedish Socialist Movement (the SSS).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•7 months agohttps://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://medium.com/@jurgeng/ikeas-tax-scheme-a-corporate-structure-designed-to-facilitate-profit-shifting-and-tax-avoidance-798caf842fb6 Direct link: https://medium.com/@jurgeng/ikeas-tax-scheme-a-corporate-structure-designed-to-facilitate-profit-shifting-and-tax-avoidance-798caf842fb6
minus-square@jeffwlink5•7 months agoThat article makes it sound like the plan to avoid taxes had ended (or was ending at that point). Here’s a slightly newer source: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1WM0PS/ Sounds like they did end up paying back at least some of what they owed
I’m inclined to believe it’s honest. Someone probably read the first article then decided to google IKEA.
They do sketchy stuff by registering the parent company as a non-profit though, don’t they?
Edit: can’t find a good source but it sounds like the tax evasion may have (at least partially) ended
It also gives a very positive spin to Ingvar Kamprad who was a literal Nazi sympathiser/fascist during WWII, friends with Swedish fascist Per Engdahl and recruiter for the Swedish Socialist Movement (the SSS).
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://medium.com/@jurgeng/ikeas-tax-scheme-a-corporate-structure-designed-to-facilitate-profit-shifting-and-tax-avoidance-798caf842fb6
Direct link: https://medium.com/@jurgeng/ikeas-tax-scheme-a-corporate-structure-designed-to-facilitate-profit-shifting-and-tax-avoidance-798caf842fb6
That article makes it sound like the plan to avoid taxes had ended (or was ending at that point). Here’s a slightly newer source: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1WM0PS/
Sounds like they did end up paying back at least some of what they owed
Thanks!