Google Lowered 2015 Taxes by $3.6 Billion Using ‘Dutch Sandwich’
- Amount company funnels to Bermuda grew 40% to $15.5 billion
- Company under pressure in Europe for not paying enough tax
The Google Inc. logo hangs illuminated at the company's exhibition stand at a digital marketing conference in Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Dmexco is a two-day global business and digital economy innovation platform, attracting the industry's most important personalities and corporate decision-makers.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergAlphabet Inc.’s Google saved $3.6 billion in worldwide taxes in 2015 by moving 14.9 billion euros ($15.5 billion) to a Bermuda shell company, new regulatory filings in the Netherlands reveal.
The amount the company shifted through its Dutch subsidiary, Google Netherlands Holdings BV, and then on to a Bermuda mailbox was 40 percent greater than in 2014, according to filings the company made with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce on Dec. 12 and which were made available online Tuesday. News of the filings was first reported by the Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad.