[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:work\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2015\u002Feu-sources-tax-avoidance-at-mcdonalds-february-24-2015":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":9,"path":10,"content_type":11,"locale":12,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":13,"page_created_at":14,"published_at":13,"edit_url":15,"breadcrumbs":16,"seo":29,"body_blocks":37,"call_to_action":43,"categories":50,"labels":51,"owner":7,"authors":52,"related_pages":53,"related_sites":54,"in_subsite":55,"contact_page_url":56,"banner_message":57},9757,"eu-sources-tax-avoidance-at-mcdonalds-february-24-2015","EU sources -Tax avoidance at McDonalds -February 24, 2015",null,"EPSU and EFFAT Report: McDonald’s deliberately has avoided over €1 billion in corporate taxes in Europe over the five year period 2009-2013. The tax avoidance strategy essentially consisted of moving the European headquarters from the UK to Switzerland as well as using intra-group royalty payments and channelling them into a Luxembourg based subsidiary with a Swiss branch.","","\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2015\u002Feu-sources-tax-avoidance-at-mcdonalds-february-24-2015","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2025-12-15T15:17:40.062915+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F9757\u002Fedit\u002F",[17,20,23,26,28],{"title":18,"slug":19},"World of Work","work",{"title":21,"slug":22},"Collective Bargaining Agreement","collective-bargaining-agreement",{"title":24,"slug":25},"Collective Bargaining Updates","updates",{"title":27,"slug":27},"2015",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":30,"canonical":31,"robots":32,"og_type":33,"twitter_card":34,"locale":12,"created_at":35,"last_modified_at":36},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2015\u002Feu-sources-tax-avoidance-at-mcdonalds-february-24-2015\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2025-12-26T22:23:05.202785+01:00",[38],{"type":39,"data":40},"raw_html_block",{"content":41,"variant":42},"\u003Cp>A report of the European trade union federations EPSU and EFFAT along with a coalition of European and American trade unions reveals that McDonald’s deliberately has avoided over €1 billion in corporate taxes in Europe over the five year period 2009-2013. The tax avoidance strategy essentially consisted of moving the European headquarters from the UK to Switzerland as well as using intra-group royalty payments and channelling them into a Luxembourg based subsidiary with a Swiss branch. The report criticises that while transnational corporations like McDonald’s are avoiding taxes in Europe, public sector workers are having their wages slashed, and nurses and social carers are facing layoffs. In fact, more than 56,000 tax inspectors have been cut throughout the EU at precisely the moment they are most needed to investigate companies like McDonald’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>English: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.notaxfraud.eu\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fdw\u002FFINAL%20REPORT.pdf\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.notaxfraud.eu\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles ... \u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan class=\"discreet\">\u003Cspan class=\"discreet\">\u003Cspan color=\"#666666\" size=\"2\">\u003Cbr\u002F>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan class=\"discreet\">\u003Cspan class=\"discreet\">\u003Cspan color=\"#666666\" size=\"2\">For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"mailto:cbn-aias@uva.nl\">\u003Cspan color=\"#0567d1\" size=\"2\">cbn-aias@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan color=\"#666666\" size=\"2\"> or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"mailto:mnikolova@etui.org\">\u003Cspan color=\"#0567d1\" size=\"2\">mnikolova@etui.org\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan color=\"#666666\" size=\"2\">. 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You may find further information on the ETUI at \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002F\">\u003Cspan color=\"#0567d1\" size=\"2\">www.etui.org\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan color=\"#666666\" size=\"2\">, and on the AIAS at \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.uva-aias.net\u002F\">\u003Cspan color=\"#0567d1\" size=\"2\">www.uva-aias.net\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan color=\"#666666\" size=\"2\">.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>","light",{"text":44,"link":45},"Contact us",{"title":44,"url":46,"description":44,"rel":47,"type":48,"id":49},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]