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Comment by helsinkiandrew

It's mentioned in the article:

> contracts with customers were signed with Palantir’s US companies, which in turn paid a service fee to local country subsidiaries to deliver the work.

Similar trick are used by many companies, for example Starbucks UK conveniently paid £40m in "royalty and license fees" to the parent company resulting in a £35m loss in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/15/starbuckss-...

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