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Re:EU lost up to €5.4B in tax revenues from Google, Facebook... by im3w1l on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:18AM (#15246474)
> (sales to Irish customers - Irish costs) and in Germany, the equavelent (sales to German customers - German costs).

The way companies deal with this is to create artificial costs. For instance have the German part pay big patent license fees (loan interest is another option) to the Irish part. Then German sales - German costs = 0.

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Re:EU lost up to €5.4B in tax revenues from Google, Facebook... by aembleton on Thursday September 14, 2017 @11:22AM (#15248930)
If the German part pays big licence fees to the Irish part then that wouldn't be deductible. They would only be able to deduct German costs.
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