Posted on 10/12/2020 9:46:16 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
Unilevers UK shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of plans to move the Marmite owner's legal base to London, despite warnings that a vote on a proposed exit tax if it leaves the Netherlands could go down to the wire.
The shift to a single legal headquarters in Britain was backed by 99.5pc of voting investors at a meeting on Monday, bringing the firm one step closer to abandoning its dual-headed Anglo-Dutch structure after 90 years.
Dutch investors in Unilever, which also owns Dove soap and Ben & Jerrys ice cream, approved the move with 99.4pc support last month.
But analysts warned that Unilever's proposals may yet be derailed by the plans for a Dutch exit tax, which could cost the firm 11bn.
Legislation proposed by the opposition GreenLeft (GroenLinks) party would impose a levy on firms with annual revenues of more than 750m that relocate their headquarters abroad in an effort to prevent large companies from leaving Holland.
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I bet the state of California is watching this.
Oh, absolutely! That is one thing Democrats excel at: the use of taxation as a behavioral modification tool.
Unilever should tell the Dutch that if such an exit tax is enacted, Unilever will pay the tax & leave but will do no further business with the Dutch, neither sales nor purchases nor employment - nothing, to avoid future tax traps in the future.
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