[vitobcn]

This is a pretty common scenario for international companies. Maybe most of them do not go as far as IKEA and lock their whole corporate structure, but most of them manage to achieve pretty low corporate tax rates. As an example Google was estimated to achieve an effective tax rate of only 2.4% [1]

[1] Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

[bryanlarsen]

It says right in the article that Google's effective tax rate is 22.2%. It pays 2.4% only on a small part of its income.