In the early morning of March 6, 2013, the Wall Street Journal quoted a report from the Indian tax authorities on Tuesday and pointed out that Cadbury, the chocolate manufacturer that had been acquired by Kraft Foods and spun into the new Mondelez International Company, used a Non-existent factories evaded about $46 million in taxes in India.
Cadbury’s India operations manipulated receipts and other documents to gain access to a tax exemption available to companies that started production at a new factory in Himachal Pradesh before March 31, 2010, the report said. tax exemption. India's Central Bureau of Excise Intelligence, which conducted the investigation, noted in its report that since Cadbury did not obtain the necessary permissions from the government on time, the factory could not have existed before the deadline.
Mondelez International spokesman Michael Mitchell pointed out that the company is already evaluating the contents of the documents sent by the Indian customs department. "We have been fully cooperating with the authorities' investigations." India confirmed in November 2012 An investigation is underway into Cadbury's local operations and it says the company may have evaded tax liabilities of up to 2 billion rupees.