I mean if I was in charge of government, I would probably be willing to take the gamble, but alas, I’m not and Mærsk and Novo Nordisk both use some of their money on “charity” work in Denmark where they set up funds that support the industry or they pay to build stuff like The Black Diamond which was Mærsk’s present to Denmark. Many think it’s super duper gracious of them and through my job, I have also benefitted from the Novo Nordisk fond. But others think that it shouldn’t be like this. They should pay their taxes and let it be up to the government what the money is spent on instead of doing this charity shit where they more or less pay for initiatives that benefits their own interests. In an ideal world, the latter would be how things were, but again, what can you do? If they decided to pull out of Denmark as punishment, those funds would probably disappear too. To me, it’s mafia behavior but I have been called out before for uttering such words about our gracious Mærsk xD especially back in the 2000s where the wider opinion was that we should be grateful and not greedy for them paying anything at all to the state. At least that was the opinion in the area where I lived at the time.
I was also being way too generous toward Mærsk. If I remember correctly, Mærsk pays somewhere around 2% tax. Apparently they paid 3,7% tax in 2022 and were praised for it haha. I don’t remember what Novo Nordisk pays in taxes, but my guess is they pay more than Mærsk but less than the lowest tax percent for poor people here.
I mean if I was in charge of government, I would probably be willing to take the gamble, but alas, I’m not and Mærsk and Novo Nordisk both use some of their money on “charity” work in Denmark where they set up funds that support the industry or they pay to build stuff like The Black Diamond which was Mærsk’s present to Denmark. Many think it’s super duper gracious of them and through my job, I have also benefitted from the Novo Nordisk fond. But others think that it shouldn’t be like this. They should pay their taxes and let it be up to the government what the money is spent on instead of doing this charity shit where they more or less pay for initiatives that benefits their own interests. In an ideal world, the latter would be how things were, but again, what can you do? If they decided to pull out of Denmark as punishment, those funds would probably disappear too. To me, it’s mafia behavior but I have been called out before for uttering such words about our gracious Mærsk xD especially back in the 2000s where the wider opinion was that we should be grateful and not greedy for them paying anything at all to the state. At least that was the opinion in the area where I lived at the time.
I was also being way too generous toward Mærsk. If I remember correctly, Mærsk pays somewhere around 2% tax. Apparently they paid 3,7% tax in 2022 and were praised for it haha. I don’t remember what Novo Nordisk pays in taxes, but my guess is they pay more than Mærsk but less than the lowest tax percent for poor people here.