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...Meanwhile, shareholder meeting season has rolled around again, giving a window into how investors are — or are not — putting pressure on major corporations over their environmental and social impacts....
...In addition, the commission lost a similar case over the Netherlands’ tax deals with Starbucks but has not filed an appeal....
...Apple Store workers said they were galvanised by successful efforts at Starbucks, where staff at dozens of stores in at least 19 states have taken steps to form unions....
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...It lost a similar but much smaller case against Starbucks and the Netherlands last year....
...“Once again a large multinational corporation has gotten away with exploiting tax laws to pay far less than it should,” he said. Additional reporting by Aime Williams...
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...Just about everyone has hurt China’s feelings at some point or another: Nike, Starbucks, Apple and Dolce & Gabbana are all offenders....
...Dunkin’ is following the example of its rival Starbucks, which until 2011 was called Starbucks Coffee. The aim is a catchy identity that sets no limits. One motive is an urge to globalise....
...Qubits v bytes: how quantum computing works Quantum computing taps into the quirky behaviour of sub-atomic particles, which bend our normal understanding of physics....
...This is as true for traditional businesses such as Fiat and Starbucks as it is for Amazon and Airbnb....
...Decisions have been taken against Apple in Ireland, Starbucks in the Netherlands, and Amazon and Fiat in Luxembourg....
...The ability to share personal stories globally has handed new power to employees and customers in their battles with big corporations....
...But tax policy in the Netherlands has come under scrutiny after the European Commission charged the Dutch government with striking a so-called sweetheart deal with US coffee chain Starbucks....
...While it builds on similar commission tax decisions recently served against deals for Starbucks in the Netherlands and Fiat in Luxembourg, the Apple case is by far the biggest and most significant....
...Max Schrems, the Austrian student who leads the privacy campaign “Europe v Facebook”, tweeted triumphantly on Tuesday: “The game is on!”...
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...The company will have to pay billions of euro in back taxes to Dublin as the European Commission moves to redraw the boundaries on aggressive tax avoidance by the world’s biggest corporations....
...“The acceleration of travel and technology and telecommunications — together with a global economy that depends on a global supply chain — makes it self-defeating ultimately for those who seek to reverse...
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...In 2014, this meant that Facebook paid £4,327 in corporation tax, a smaller bill than paid by one person on the average UK wage....
...Mr Lew’s intervention makes him the most senior official yet to criticise the recent spate of tax investigations into a series of American companies, which includes Starbucks and Amazon as well as Apple....
...Brussels struck its first blow in the state aid tax cases in October by ordering Luxembourg and the Netherlands to recoup tens of millions of euros from the Italian carmaker Fiat and the US coffee shop chain Starbucks...
...That followed decisions in October ordering Luxembourg and the Netherlands to recoup tens of millions of euros from the Italian carmaker Fiat and the US coffee shop chain Starbucks....
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