How ABP UK appears to have reduced its tax bill

By lending money from a company in one country to a related company in another, and then borrowing it back at a different interest rate, ABP UK appears to have significantly and legally cut its tax bill between 2017 and 2022. The company says it is tax compliant in all the jurisdictions in which it operates.

Trojaan Investering

A finance company and part of ABP Food Group based in the Netherlands

£63m

loan at 5%

Multiple

loans

at 0%

£3.15m

interest payments

in a year

Other companies

in the

ABP Food Group

ABP UK

Based in UK

Based in Jersey and Ireland

By lending money from a company in one country to a related company in another, and then borrowing it back at a different interest rate, ABP UK appears to have significantly and legally cut its tax bill between 2017 and 2022. The company says it is tax compliant in all the jurisdictions in which it operates.

Trojaan Investering

A finance company and part of ABP Food Group based in the Netherlands

£63m

loan at 5%

Multiple loans

at 0%

£3.15m

interest payments

in a year

Other companies in

the ABP Food Group

ABP UK

Based in UK

Based in Jersey and Ireland