The FT has reported that:
Dublin [has] strongly rejected allegations contained in a US Senate Committee report that it is a tax haven
But then every tax haven does that. And they have to do so because the rest of the world thinks they are a tax haven, and it's the opinion of the rest of the world that matters, because they're the people who're suffering the impact of the tax haven's crime to which they are, of course, pleading "not guilty" in vain.
In which case Ireland is a definitely a tax haven because everyone outside it thinks it is.
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Not exactly a very compelling argument “Ireland is a definitely a tax haven because everyone outside it thinks it is”
Not very compelling, I agree
Totally compelling would be better
Well it’s good to know you’re voicing the opinion of the rest of the world.
This was posted on an Irish magazine website:
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/05/22/low-rates-and-not-too-many-questions/
City of London is being called the Tax Haven Capital of the World. Read this:
https://www.therules.org/en/actions/london-tax-haven
A bit rich to be lecturing Ireland is it not?
In a nice comment on Radio 4, this morning, an irish gentleman said that it was in the Netherlands/Luxembourg/BVI/Channel Isles [not Ireland, specifically] that any tax saving was being made…