"I got one am very pleased to see the EU doing good work against tax havens. It's no wonder the British press hate the EU so much." Oh please! Jean-Claude Jun

"I got one am very pleased to see the EU doing good work against tax havens. It's no wonder the British press hate the EU so much." Oh please! Jean-Claude Junker - the #1 man in the EU - was the architect of Luxembourg's tax-avoidance schemes. Your statement very difficult to comprehend. The UK is a regular taxed entity. It is NOT a haven really in any way. Meanwhile: Luxembourg, Monaco, Lichenstein, Isle of Man and a few others are broadly tax havens, and Ireland is a huge haven in specific corporate circumstances. Not only is the EU rife with tax havens - but they are also duplicitous in their application of the law. The EU's grab of billions from Amazon, Google and Apple is theft of private property. The EU is acting like Venzuela or a banana republic. Re-interpreting the law retrocatively 25 years??? These 'big corps' will do everything possible within the law to lower their taxes - but they obey the law and pay their taxes. If the EU, in 1980 had said 'here are the rules' - then big corps would comply. But the EU deciding one day that 'oh, this tax law, which we have actively accepted for 25 years as meaning 'this' - now means 'that'. Retroactively. This is what tin-pot dictators like Putin do when they wish to nationalize specific industries - and it's scary to any business person and bad for business. The EU's job should be to make sure there is relative tax harmony, that the rules are clear, and then that people follow those rules. Not to change them willy nilly and grab billions because of socialist populist sentiment. If they want to change how things are - change the tax laws. that's it.