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There are no secret tax deals. There have sometimes been "advance opinions", where Revenue clarifies the application of the rules to particular facts, but it do
by NoboruWataya 3y ago
There are no secret tax deals. There have sometimes been "advance opinions", where Revenue clarifies the application of the rules to particular facts, but it does not agree to change the rules for specific companies.
There is also no facilitation of tax evasion.
As for playing fairly, the rules of the EU - that we all agreed to - state that taxation is a competence of the member states, ie, member states can set their own tax rates. Agreeing to those rules and then subsequently strong-arming small states into increasing their tax rates to reduce their competitiveness against larger economies is the definition of playing unfairly.
- yunohn 3y agoIreland is recognised as a tax haven by basically everyone else. I think your framing really ignores the stark reality of how they’ve facilitated tax evasion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_as_a_tax_haven https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_as_a_tax_haven The Irish sandwich loopholes are regarded as the largest tax avoidance scheme in history. It was actively facilitated by the Irish government the whole time. > Irish state documents released to the Irish national archives in December 2018 showed that Fine Gael ministers in 1984 sought legal advice on how U.S. corporations could avoid taxes by operating from Ireland. > the Irish government, on lobbying from PwC Ireland's IFSC tax partner, Feargal O'Rourke, relaxed the rules for sending royalty payments to non–EU countries without incurring Irish withholding tax. > The Irish Revenue issued private rulings to Apple in 1991 and 2007 regarding this hybrid-double Irish structure, which the EU Commission considered as illegal State aid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement