These countries were not the problem cases. If you compare it with Ireland however : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

These countries were not the problem cases. If you compare it with Ireland however : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_tax_in_the_Repub... "Ireland's "headline" corporation tax rate is 12.5%, however, foreign multinationals pay an aggregate § Effective tax rate (ETR) of 2.2–4.5% on global profits "shifted" to Ireland, via Ireland's global network of bilateral tax treaties."