McDonald's responds to accusations of tax optimization

The American fast food giant is accused of having implemented a system that has lost more than a billion euros in tax revenues to European states between 2009 and 2013, the first of which France. McDonald's says his side have paid more than a billion euros tax on companies not only in France.

Three global union federations maintain their accusations: "More and more companies are, it's become almost impossible to supervise companies while millions of citizens must pay taxes everywhere," said the representative of the European Federation utilities,

The three global union federations have calculated that McDonald's has made up more than 3.7 billion euros in its European restaurants to its Luxembourg holding McD Europe Franchising. The latter has paid only 16 million euros in taxes in the Grand Duchy between 2009 and 2013.