As in other European states, Tesla sales are in free fall in the Netherlands:-50 % less in the first quarter of 2025, with 3,443 cars sold. It is however for another reason that the Elon Musk company is now on the hot seat in this country: it seems to pay very little taxes, thanks to the complex structure it has set up and agreements which relaunch questions on the practices of the authorities of The Hague with regard to large foreign companies.
The Dutch independent investigation site Follow the Money published, on Saturday April 12, the result of a excavated investigation Of the seven subsidiaries located on the Tesla industrial site, in Amsterdam Zuidoost. According to the journalistic consortium which scrutinized the American and European annual accounts (notably Dutch and German) of the multinational and its subsidiaries, the main of them, Tesla Motors Netherlands (TMN), pays very little taxes in the Netherlands, while it achieved a turnover of 26 billion euros in 2023, or near the third of Tesla $ 97 billion, or 85 billion euros).
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Source: Lemonde