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Re:Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £22... by dmurray on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:12AM (#27380753)
Actually, no. The Apple case [0] is still pending some more layers of appeals, but both sides accept that Ireland doesn't have complete carte blanche to set its own tax laws. The EU gets to participate in setting them too.

Of course, Irish citizens could vote to withdraw from the EU and set their own tax that way, but that's not likely - they generally accept that the benefits of participating in the EU are worth giving up a little sovereignty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_v_Commission

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Re:Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £22... by m12k on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:38AM (#27381115)
I'd love for Ireland to withdraw from the EU - that would make it much, much likelier that the rest of us could get a consensus on anti-profit-shifting tax reform with the biggest tax haven out of the union.
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