Microsoft is a big tech company from the USA. It released new numbers. These numbers show taxes for the year 2025.
Microsoft paid 6.3 billion dollars in the EU. This is about 5.5 billion Euro. Almost all money went to Ireland.
Ireland got 5.6 billion dollars from Microsoft. The main office for Europe is there. Microsoft registered rights there. This is called geistigem Eigentum.
Germany gets little money. Microsoft paid 174.2 million dollars there. This is a small amount for a big market.
Over 3000 people work for Microsoft in Germany. They sell programs. But the company counts profit in Ireland. This affects the Körperschaftsteuern.
The EU Commission does not like this. It wants fair taxes for all. Taxes should go to the home of the users. Microsoft follows new EU-Transparenzrichtlinien now.
Worldwide Microsoft paid 28.7 billion dollars in taxes. Only Apple paid more. The money goes to the Fiskus in many countries.
