• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    And the very next line:

    This is a major escalation the Irish Government wants to avoid.

    Have they tried going back to before they were a crooked tax haven for unethical corporations? I knew as soon as they decided to be a tax shelter that they would become what I believe the Br*tish call, “A cunt in the machinery.”

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      Have they tried going back to before they were a crooked tax haven for unethical corporations?

      1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington alone evades more tax than Ireland.

      It’s lovely to throw stones, but you’re in the most delicate glasshouse of them all.

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        15 hours ago

        I support the Global Tax Agreement but think it’s a little too lenient. A real 15% tax would do way more for everyone except the corporations than a 15% tax with loopholes allowed. So I’m not exactly sitting in a glass house?

        I don’t think EVERY country should impose those rates but any “first world” country needs to. let the developing world impose lower rates or even incentives if that’s what works for them but if the economy is roaring along lets get some of that wealth into the public coffers.