Maersk loses major tax case in Danish Supreme Court

Mærsk and Total are facing a huge tax increase after the Danish Supreme Court’s largest case on transfer pricing.

The Supreme Court sentences Maersk and Total to billions in a case about so-called transfer pricing. | Photo: Jens Hartmann Schmidt/Ritzau Scanpix

Maersk and French energy company TotalEnergies has lost the largest transfer pricing case in Danish history to The Danish Ministry of Taxation.

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