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Taxpayers fearful as EC investigates Luxembourg’s tax treatment of McDonald’s

Joe Stanley-Smith
December 07, 2015
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Taxpayers in Luxembourg are waiting nervously for the European Commission to add to the list of companies it is scrutinising under state aid laws after McDonald’s became the latest multinational to be investigated.

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