{"id":13039,"date":"2015-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/huge-profit-stokes-concerns-over-starbucks-tax-practices-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:56:58","slug":"huge-profit-stokes-concerns-over-starbucks-tax-practices-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/huge-profit-stokes-concerns-over-starbucks-tax-practices-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Profit Stokes Concerns over Starbucks’ Tax Practices in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people I talk to about their IRS problem have already built the worst-case scenario in their head. The reality is usually much more manageable. I'm Darrin Mish, and I've been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Here's what actually tends to happen.<\/p>\n

www.wsj.com –\u00a0Starbucks<\/a> Corp. is going through the grinder in Europe.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s biggest coffee chain has raised suspicions among regulators and local governments by reporting losses in its biggest European markets for years despite recording hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales.<\/p>\n

Last year, as European Union regulators opened a formal investigation, a profit materialized: \u20ac407 million ($446.6 million), reported by the company\u2019s European head office in Amsterdam. The coffee chain has since moved its headquarters to London.<\/p>\n

Read more about Starbucks’ Tax practices in Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out more Tax News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n

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Most people I talk to about their IRS problem have already built the worst-case scenario in their head. The reality is usually much more manageable. I'm Darrin Mish, and I've been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Here's what actually tends to happen. www.wsj.com –\u00a0Starbucks Corp. is going through the grinder in Europe. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22427,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039\/revisions\/22427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}