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Amazon and McDonald's to be Next for EU State Aid Investigations

|Proposed Changes|European Union-Luxembourg-United States
European Union-Luxembourg-United States

In a recent interview, EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager discussed the pending State aid investigations. According to Vestager, the next companies in the pipeline are Amazon ({News-2015-01-16/A/5- previous coverage}) and McDonald's ({News-2016-06-09/A/4- previous coverage}), which are both involved in investigations concerning Luxembourg tax rulings. In both of the rulings, Luxembourg accepted royalty structures that allowed minimal taxation on billions in revenue from the c…

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