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Let's just say that everyone up here doesn't love our high taxes. :-)

You could of course wish that IKEA would pay its corporate taxes like a good corporate citizen, but maybe the same traits that makes Ingvar Kamprad want to save expenses on everything, including taxes, is the same trait that has also made IKEA the huge success it is?

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Expressen recently listed the "top" tax-payers in Sweden [1]. What's interesting is that the second wealthiest person in Sweden after Kamprad, H&M owner Stefan Perssson, tops the list and pays more tax than the ten following people combined. It's also interesting to find one of the investors in Skype at #4 and one of the founders of MySQL at #11.

http://www.expressen.se/ekonomi/1.1797308/h-m-miljardar-beta...

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