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"Mr President, we are now seeing a very disappointing pattern, whereby by some Member States, including our Presidency, play in fact a destructive role in Council by opposing reforms for fair and transparent corporate taxation. Indeed, my own Finance Minister in Ireland claims Ireland is committed to the highest international standards on tax transparency, but then, on the other hand, is also on the record as opposing public country-by-country reporting. Government and tax industry representatives claim this is about trust. They say the Irish people have trust in our Revenue Agency, therefore country-by-country reporting does not need to be made public. But a lot of people do not trust organisations like Revenue. They were, after all, the Agency that gave the infamous sweetheart deals to Apple. So making country—by—country reporting public is vital to ensure democratic public scrutiny of corporate taxation. Transparency and sovereignty can go hand—in—hand, but we need governments to stop using the limitations of the OECD’s proposals as an excuse to block action on tax transparency. Either we are in favour of transparency or we are not."@en1
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