Isn’t this known already. Along with NL and IE – the Dutch Irish sandwich?
I’ve never seen a major economy quite like Ireland built on patent tax dodging.
When 80% of your entire corporate tax receipts are derived from just 14 foreign national companies dodging taxes in their actual nation of incorporation, you’re taking an unacceptable risk with your entire economic well-being that another nation won’t just come along and undercut you in this race to the bottom.
The good times are here, for sure. But this is not a sustainable game, nor is it one that stagnating EU economies are likely to tolerate long-term (esp. after Apple v Commission).
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this required a study?
Isn’t this known already. Along with NL and IE – the Dutch Irish sandwich?
I’ve never seen a major economy quite like Ireland built on patent tax dodging.
When 80% of your entire corporate tax receipts are derived from just 14 foreign national companies dodging taxes in their actual nation of incorporation, you’re taking an unacceptable risk with your entire economic well-being that another nation won’t just come along and undercut you in this race to the bottom.
The good times are here, for sure. But this is not a sustainable game, nor is it one that stagnating EU economies are likely to tolerate long-term (esp. after Apple v Commission).
No shit.