Tue, 04 Nov, 2014 02:41:18 AM Supercell founders included in top 5 FTimes - STT-Xinhua Report, Nov. 04
The company’s total taxable income last year was more than 475 million euros.
The second highest corporate tax payer was the energy company Fortum which paid as much as 102 million euros in taxes. The company’s total taxable income last year was 418 million euros.
The pharmaceutical company Bayer paid a total of 91 million euros in corporate taxes last year. Its taxable income last year was 373 million euros.
The tax authorities informed about taxation on a company-to-company basis and not on the consortium level.
The total taxable income of the Nordea banking group was 907 million euros. Nordea Bank paid approximately 80 million euros in corporate tax last year. The whole Nordea banking group paid 190 million euros in taxes last year.
OP Pohjola Group paid a total of 120 million euros in corporate tax. Its taxable income was more than 200 million euros including Pohjola Bank and its subsidiaries.
The mobile game development company Super Cell paid around 82 million euros in taxes. The company’s taxable income was as much as 336 million euros.
The news agency Xinhua adds: Founders of the Finnish game company Supercell were ranked top five taxpayers in Finland, revealed the Finnish Tax Administration in its 2013 tax data published on Monday.
Finnish game company Supercell Oy's CEO Ilkka Paananen and creative director Mikko Kodisoja. File Photo Lehtikuva. Mikko Kodisoja, creative director and co-founder of Supercell, who earned 170 million euros from both his salary and capital gain, listed the top earner in Finland in 2013.
Ilkka Paananen, Supercell’s CEO and another co-founder, who made 189 million euros, was listed the second top earner.
The two key persons of Supercell are therefore top taxpayers in Finland in 2013. Kodisoja paid 54.4 million euros, while Paananen paid 54.1 million.
Both Kodisoja and Paananen broke the Finnish record for one-year tax payment, said the Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat on Monday.
Paananen said in his blog last autumn that he was a happy tax payer. “We have received a lot of help from the society, and now it is our turn to redound upon the society,” he told the Helsingin Sanomat one year ago.
In addition to Kodisoja and Paananen, Supercell’s three other co-founders, Lassi Lepinen, Niko Derome and Visa Forsten, are also listed in the 5 top taxpayers in 2013, with payments of 12.1 million, 12.0 million and 11.9 million euros respectively.
Founded in June 2010 in Helsinki, Supercell is a Finnish game company, whose free games for smart phones and tablets have attracted tens of millions of players from around the world.
The company has grown exponentially since releasing its hot games Clash of Clans and Hay Day in 2012. Supercell’s turnover surged by over 860 per cent to 672 million euros in 2013.
Supercell won the 2013 Internationalisation Award of the President of the Republic of Finland earlier in March this year for its excellent performance in the international market.
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