{"id":22155,"date":"2013-09-11T21:25:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=22155"},"modified":"2013-09-11T21:25:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:25:18","slug":"the-eu-is-turning-its-fire-on-ireland-the-netherlands-and-luxembourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/11\/the-eu-is-turning-its-fire-on-ireland-the-netherlands-and-luxembourg\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU is turning its fire on Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/bc045306-1afa-11e3-b781-00144feab7de.html#ixzz2ecIJOWeu\" target=\"_blank\">FT has reported tonight that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-track-pos=\"0\">Brussels is probing Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands over their\u00a0<a title=\"G20 leaders ratchet up pressure on tax avoidance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/099eb084-1704-11e3-9ec2-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl\">tax deals with multinationals<\/a>\u00a0paving the way potentially for a formal investigation into illegal sweeteners.<\/p>\n<p data-track-pos=\"1\">Europe\u2019s top competition authority has asked the governments to explain their system of tax rulings and give details of assurances given to several specific companies \u2014 including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.ft.com\/tearsheets\/performance.asp?s=us:AAPL\" data-hover-chart=\"us:AAPL\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.ft.com\/tearsheets\/performance.asp?s=us:SBUX\" data-hover-chart=\"us:SBUX\">Starbucks<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 according to people who have seen the request.<\/p>\n<p data-track-pos=\"2\">The move threatens to open a new front in the\u00a0<a title=\"Great Tax Race -- FT.com In Depth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/indepth\/great-tax-race\">global clampdown on tax evasion\u00a0<\/a>through enforcing the EU\u2019s state aid rules \u2014 a unique regime that bans serious distortions of competition through tax breaks to favoured private groups.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If this is true - and the report implies good sources are available - this is excellent news because it goes right to the heart of the issue of tax abuse - which is that it is state sponsored by those states that have fallen prey to the influence of what Prem Sikka calls the pinstripe mafia of lawyers, accountants and bankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has reported tonight that: Brussels is probing Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands over their\u00a0tax deals with multinationals\u00a0paving the way potentially for a formal<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/11\/the-eu-is-turning-its-fire-on-ireland-the-netherlands-and-luxembourg\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-avoidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}