The following three articles from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) contrasts how the Irish government deals with mega-corporations, and 12,000 Aer Lingus workers threatened with redundancy, and sacked Debenhams’ workers who have taken action
IRELAND BEATS THE RAP ON TAX FRAUD
We would sell out to anyone, claims defence!
Irish government assists Apple in $13B tax fraud
The announcement that the European Court had rejected a Commission fine of over €13 billion for a tax scheme with the Apple corporation was greeted with jubilation in Ireland.
The nervous hilarity was reminiscent of a bad melodrama where the Mafia clan escape a guilty verdict through the brilliance of their genius lawyer. The flaw in the European Commission’s case was that it was based on selective advantage. It failed to show that two rulings given by the Irish Revenue, in 1991 and 2007, afforded Apple a selective advantage. Continue reading “IRISH GOVERNMENT HYPOCRISY”
