The European Commission, the executive body of the EU, said that it is suspected that the Luxembourg government has illegal preferential treatment for corporate tax on Amazon.com, which has subsidiaries in its own country, for three years I have been investigating from before.

As a result, the European Commission concluded that preferential treatment for corporate tax was made from 2003, it is judged that the EU's "supplementary state" prohibits fair competition, and on the 4th, about 250 million I ordered the Luxembourg Government to make the Amazon imposing additional taxation on the euro (¥ 33 billion in Japanese yen).

A member of Vestea of ​​the European Commission who held a press conference pointed out that "About three quarters of the profits have not been taxed as a result of illegal preferential treatment," criticizing the Luxembourg Government.

On the contrary, the Luxembourg Government issued a statement and opposed the decision that "we have never benefited the company with state subsidies".

In addition, the European Commission has ordered the Irish government to add taxes of EUR 13 billion last year, saying it had made state assistance to an American IT company Apple, but has not put it into practice We also announced that it will file a lawsuit against the EU Judicial Court and once again showed our attitude that multinational companies will strictly respond to the move to escape taxation.