Ok that’s not tax evasion. That’s just hyperbole.
These companies are multinational companies. They do have offshore company structures and accounts to distribute their products.
Fuel companies are also notorious for it.
The argument from the lay person is that they should be paying tax to the US because they are American companies. But the fact of the matter is, their products are distributed globally from their offshore entities. The products are sold offshore and the money is earned offshore. As a result, they should pay tax in the jurisdiction they are registered in.
As long as the money stays offshore, they should pay no tax. The tax implications occur when they remove the money from the holding structure and transfer the money to another sister structure in another country like the US.
It’s the same principle as a trading PTY LTD. the company only pays tax on profit at a ghly reduced rate. If the money is removed from the structure, it will be removed as a franked dividend and the beneficiary will pay normal income tax on that with only the franked portion being exempt.
So yeh, as long as the money stays where it is, no further tax implication.
That’s why we have accountants to advise us.
