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European Commission Decision to Extend State Aid Investigation into the Netherlands' Tax Treatment of IKEA Published

15 July 2020

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European Union-Netherlands

The 30 April 2020 decision of the European Commission to extend its State aid investigation into the Netherlands' tax treatment of Inter IKEA was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 10 July 2020. The Commission's initial decision to open the investigation was issued in December 2017 concerning two Dutch tax rulings regarding IKEA IP and license fees that may have allowed Inter IKEA to pay less tax and provided an unfair advantage over other companies in breach of EU State aid rules. The decision to extend the investigation was made because some of the facts and assumptions...