• BruceLee@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Mondelēz might be international but productions are local. They have plenty of manufactures all accords France, Belgium and Netherlands, to stick with the ones I know.

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        1 day ago

        Often not, no - it’s a big problem that these huge multinationals have is repatriating their foreign cash.

        Apple used to have somewhere around 5x more cash in Ireland than they did in USA, because taxes.

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          Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that.

          Although I would argue that such “unrealized” profits would still count as being given overseas, since the money is not available to the european economy any more, no?

          They just keep it parked in some kind of inflation proof financial construct until needed (at which point they might have to pay taxes on however much of it they need to withdraw, but still).

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            They just keep it parked in some kind of inflation proof financial construct until needed

            Sometimes, othertimes they use it to just buy out european/australian/japanese/etc entities - since it’s hard to repatriate, they can use that as a sort of justification where some shareholders (Hedge Funds that want dividends now) might object.