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Ireland is not the only loophole: Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands made "special" deals with large corporations, too. https://www.ft.com/content/7ce5bf96

• lucideer 8y ago
  Yeah, I'm sure others too. Interested to see if these are pursued in court as well, or even other corporations with deals in Ireland (Apple are in no way the only one). When the Apple ruling first came out there was talk of it being the first of others, but with how much resistance the Irish government have put up, it's hard to see them coming to fruition at this stage.
• flipp3r 8y ago
  Can confirm; working in the Netherlands right now for a large organization which basically got granted 10M tax deduction for innovation which boils down to implementing React in our frontends, doing microservices in Kubernetes, and building CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins.... As a small company you can apply for this same innovation thing and get 17K tax deduction, and you have to put 500 hours into it. It's rediculous. It's called "WBSO (Wet Bevordering Speur- en Ontwikkelingswerk)". Hoi Jan.