On 6 June 2016, the European Commission published a public version (confidential information removed) of the letter sent to the Luxembourg government on the Commission's decision to initiate a formal State aid investigation into tax rulings provided to McDonald's ({News-2015-12-07/A/2- previous coverage}).
The tax rulings in question include a March 2009 ruling in which Luxembourg confirmed that McDonald's Europe Franchising (Luxembourg subsidiary through which McDonald's European franchisi…