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Confidential tax arrangements for multinational companies like Amazon and Fiat save taxes but now are under pressure from the EU
By Matthew Karnitschnig and Robin van Daalen, The Wall Street Journal
On the first floor of a rust-colored building near the main railway station, Marius Kohl spent years engineering this country’s most valuable export: tax relief. As head of a federal agency called Sociétés 6, Mr. Kohl approved thousands of tax arrangements for multinational corporations, sometimes helping them save billions. Sociétés 6’s official function is to determine how much tax is owed each year by roughly 50,000 Luxembourg-registered holding companies, most of which have foreign parents.
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