Well.. countries are allowed to set their own tax laws. That’s part of what makes a country. Fiscal sovereignty right there. Ireland (obviously) purposely creat

Well.. countries are allowed to set their own tax laws. That’s part of what makes a country. Fiscal sovereignty right there. Ireland (obviously) purposely created their tax framework so it would allow for this kind of behaviour. The world is battling for the tax dollars of wealthy people and their corporations. The EU ruling is just an initial opinion of the EU commission. It’ll have to go through the ECJ first. Countries are starving for tax income and have very clear conflicts of interests: they want to 1) tax their normal residents as much as possible, but at the same time 2) hand out low tax “freebies” to non residents (or HNWIs) so they will book some of their taxable profits in their jurisdictions. This needs to stop (globally) before you can effectively combat avoidance. But I doubt it’s ever going to happen.