I'm not sure where you're getting your information on how much tax corporations pay---Google paid 163.8 million Euros in 2016 (https://www.rte.ie/news/business/

I'm not sure where you're getting your information on how much tax corporations pay---Google paid 163.8 million Euros in 2016 (https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2017/1129/923762-google-ireland-paid-163-8m-in-tax-for-2016/ https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2017/1129/923762-google-ire...). That's nothing like "very little." The real issue people appear to have with it is that Ireland's tax rate is low relative to other countries, and they get to shift a lot of what some would consider taxable income generated in other nations to be claimed via their Irish subsidiary. This could be "solved" either by Ireland increasing its tax rate or by other countries changing their laws to no longer allow for exfiltration of money to Ireland from their economies. But they won't do these things for their own (cross-national competition) reasons. Odd to blame the company when it's the countries that don't want to change, though. If, on the other hand, a company is actually breaking international law, as Apple has apparently done (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/technology/apple-tax-eu-ireland.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/technology/apple-tax-eu-i...), that's a different story altogether.