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So dumb to make this about US vs EU when this is about closing tax loopholes for multinationals.
by stefanix 11y ago
So dumb to make this about US vs EU when this is about closing tax loopholes for multinationals.
- ptha 11y agoThe majority of the tax to be recovered are actually related to European and not US companies: "While declining to name the companies who benefitted from the tax scheme, Commissioner Vestager said that €500 million of the total tax bill of €700 million related to European companies, a development that may appease critics of the European Commission who have accused Brussels of unfairly targeting US multinationals." http://www.irishtimes.com/business/vestager-denies-delay-in-probing-ireland-s-apple-tax-deal-1.2492451 http://www.irishtimes.com/business/vestager-denies-delay-in-...
- lugus35 11y agoActually, it's Belgium vs UE commission. And investors end up the laughing stock.
- mcv 11y agoYeah, it's not EU vs US, it's EU closing a Belgian tax loophole for non-EU multinationals that the US had already criticized. EU and US seem to be on the same side here. Except for Belgium.