PRESS REVIEW

McDONALD’S TAX AVOIDANCE SCHEME

26/02/2015

EU/INTERNATIONAL EU Observer, 26/02/2015 [link]

AUSTRIA Kleine Zeitung, 26/02/2015 [link]

FRANCE L’express, 26/02/2015 [link] Midi Libre, 26/02/2015 [link] Le Figaro, 26/02/2015 [link] TF1, 26/02/2015 [link] Le Monde, 26/02/2015 [link] Liberation, 26/02/2015 [link] GERMANY WAZ, 26/02/2015 [link] ITALY Il Fatto Quotidiano, 25/02/2015 [link] Affar Italiani, 26/02/2015 [link] Economia Finanza, 26/02/2015 [link] Tiscali, 26/02/2015 [link] EU News, 26/02/2015 [link] LUXEMBOURG Luxemburger Wort, 26/02/2015 [link] PORTUGAL RTP, 26/02/2015 [link] RFI, 26/02/2015 [link] ROMANIA Business Magazin, 26/02/2015 [link] RUSSIA RT, 26/02/2015 [link]

EUROPEAN UNION/INTERNATIONAL

McDonald’s accused of avoiding €1bn in taxes EU Observer, 26/02/2015 [link]

AUSTRIA McDonald’s: Profit moved to Luxembourg? Kleine Zeitung, 26/02/2015 [link]

FRANCE McDonald’s suspected of over one billion in tax fraud L’express, 26/02/2015 [link]

McDonald's to have avoided over one billion in tax obligation in Europe Midi Libre, 26/02/2015 [link]

McDonald's accused of grand tax evasion in Europe Le Figaro, 26/02/2015 [link]

McDonald's Europe to have escaped more than a billion euro in tax TF1, 26/02/2015 [link]

McDonald's Europe to have escaped more than a billion euro in tax Le Monde, 26/02/2015 [link]

McDonald's said to have avoided more than 1 billion euros tax according to unions in France Liberation, 26/02/2015 [link]

GERMANY

Union: McDonald’s swindles the tax authority WAZ, 26/02/2015 [link]

ITALY

McDonald’s evades one billion in Europe. Italia is owed 74 million Il Fatto Quotidiano, 25/02/2015 [link]

McDonald’s in a storm in Europe: massive evasion of one billion Affar Italiani, 26/02/2015 [link]

McDonald’s accused by Unions: one billion evasion in the EU. Italian branch: we paid all our taxes Economia Finanza, 26/02/2015 [link]

McDonald’s stands accused in Europe: Unions say it avoided of one billion euro in tax Tiscali, 26/02/2015 [link]

Unhappy Meal, Unions accuse McDonald's: "Evading more than a billion of taxes in Europe” EU News, 26/02/2015 [link]

LUXEMBOURG

Home of Big Mac in tax avoidance spat Luxemburger Wort, 26/02/2015 [link]

PORTUGAL

McDonald's Luxembourg scheme deprives Europe of millions in taxes RTP, 26/02/2015 [link]

French unions denounce fiscal manoeuvre network of McDonald's RFI, 26/02/2015 [link]

ROMANIA

Unions complained to the European Commission against McDonald's taxes avoidance Business Magazin, 26/02/2015 [link]

Report was reprinted in: Daily Business (Romania) [link]

RUSSIA Revealed: McDonald’s €1bn tax loophole RT, 26/02/2015 [link]