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Tax CUTS? who cares? the money's in 'Double Irish' tax LOOPHOLES

Friday, October 22, 2010 12:31

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Tax Loopholes

By Jesse Drucker – Oct 21, 2010

Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda

Google’s income shifting — involving strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” — helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries.

“It’s remarkable that Google’s effective rate is that low,” said Martin A. Sullivan, a tax economist who formerly worked for the U.S. Treasury Department. “We know this company operates throughout the world mostly in high-tax countries where the average corporate rate is well over 20 percent.”

The U.S. corporate income-tax rate is 35 percent. In the U.K., Google’s second-biggest market by revenue, it’s 28 percent.

Google, the owner of the world’s most popular search engine, uses a strategy that has gained favor among such companies as Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

The method takes advantage of Irish tax law to legally shuttle profits into and out of subsidiaries there, largely escaping the country’s 12.5 percent income tax. (See an interactive graphic on Google’s tax strategy here.) The earnings wind up in island havens that levy no corporate income taxes at all. Companies that use the double Irish arrangement avoid taxes at home and abroad as the US government struggles to close a $1.4 Trillion budget gap and Euoropean Union countries face a collective deficit of 688 billion Euros.

Irish source: www.irishcentral.com/news/Google-slashes-tax-bill-through-Double-Irish-technique-105512928.html

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