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"Mr President, my home country of Ireland has a reputation as an enabler of massive tax avoidance for large corporations and the wealthiest in society, and unfortunately the perception is true. The Irish Government recently stated that it would phase out the notorious double Irish tax system, but companies like Google and Microsoft have until 2021 to restructure their tax avoidance techniques.
The government has now introduced a so-called knowledge box, a tax rate of 6.25% for certain companies. We know this will not foster innovation; it is just another tax avoidance mechanism, another hand-out of millions to multinationals. All the while Irish and European authorities have pushed taxes and charges on ordinary families who are already struggling to cope. The loopholes in the Irish system have been designed to perfectly complement the loopholes in the US tax law to benefit massive US corporations.
We can see that the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting
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measures are not enough to deal with the scale of the problem and that an EU set of legislative measures is not the answer. The response needs to be truly international."@en1
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