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The EU allows a couple of its countries to act as tax havens. Ireland and the Netherlands are probably pretty pleased that EU citizens seem to direct all their
by sidibe 8y ago
The EU allows a couple of its countries to act as tax havens. Ireland and the Netherlands are probably pretty pleased that EU citizens seem to direct all their outrage at the companies that do the obvious thing instead of at their tax laws.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoI'm not sure that's really true – the EU has been fighting the "Double Irish" arrangement for some time.
- rb808 8y agoYou should check out the tax havens in the US before complaining about EU. Wyoming, Nevada etc https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world-s-favorite-new-tax-haven-is-the-united-states https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world...
- sidibe 8y agoI'm not complaining about the EU or comparing with US, I'm just pointing out that if the rage many EU citizens feel about the taxes of large corporations should be addressed by the EU somehow instead of hoping companies start paying some moral amount of taxes.
- aboutruby 8y agoThere will always be better countries to pay taxes in. So that even if one country "fixes" its laws, another country becomes the alternative.
- rorykoehler 8y agoIt's not really that straight forward. With the Euro another dimension is thrown into the mix due to the effects of the extreme export competitiveness disparities that exist within the single monetary areas.