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Coincidence? Or is IKEA doing some astroturfing to hide bad news?

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I’m inclined to believe it’s honest. Someone probably read the first article then decided to google IKEA.

They do sketchy stuff by registering the parent company as a non-profit though, don’t they?

Edit: can’t find a good source but it sounds like the tax evasion may have (at least partially) ended
- It also gives a very positive spin to Ingvar Kamprad who was a literal Nazi sympathiser/fascist during WWII, friends with Swedish fascist Per Engdahl and recruiter for the Swedish Socialist Movement (the SSS).
- https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://medium.com/@jurgeng/ikeas-tax-scheme-a-corporate-structure-designed-to-facilitate-profit-shifting-and-tax-avoidance-798caf842fb6
  
  Direct link: https://medium.com/@jurgeng/ikeas-tax-scheme-a-corporate-structure-designed-to-facilitate-profit-shifting-and-tax-avoidance-798caf842fb6
  
  That article makes it sound like the plan to avoid taxes had ended (or was ending at that point). Here’s a slightly newer source: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1WM0PS/
  
  Sounds like they did end up paying back at least some of what they owed
  
  Thanks!

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