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Taylor|title=Trump's U.S. tax reform a significant challenge for
Ireland|publisher=Irish Times|date=30 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="tcja2">{{Cite web|title = U.S. corporations could be saying goodbye to Ireland|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/us-corporations-could-be-saying-goodbye-to-ireland-1.3359050?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fus-corporations-could-be-saying-goodbye-to-ireland-1.3359050|publisher=Irish Times|author=Suzanne Lynch|date=17 January 2018}}</ref> Donald Trump had "singled out" Ireland in 2017 speeches promoting the TCJA,<ref>{{cite web|author=Suzanne Lynch| url= https://www.irishtimes.com/business/donald-trump-singles-out-ireland-in-tax-speech-1.3310149?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fdonald-trump-singles-out-ireland-in-tax-speech-1.3310149|title=Donald Trump singles out Ireland in tax speech|publisher=Irish Times|date=29 November 2017}}</ref> and Trump administration economic advisor, ], predicted "a flood of companies" would leave Ireland due to the TCJA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/flood-of-companies-to-leave-ireland-due-to-us-tax-cuts-35206322.html|title='Flood of companies' to leave Ireland due to U.S. tax cuts|author1=Niall O'Connor|author2=Colm Kelpie|author3=Laura Larkin|author4=and Brian Hutton|date=11 November 2017}}</ref> Leading U.S. tax academic, ]{{efn|Desai had written ] with James R. Hines Jr., including the second most cited academic paper on tax havens, ''The demand for tax haven operations'' (2006).<ref name="desai">{{cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272705001350 |author1=]|author2=C Fritz Foley|author3=]|title=The demand for tax haven operations | journal=] | volume=90 | issue=3 | pages=513–531 | date=February 2006|quote=Examples of such tax havens include Ireland and Luxembourg in Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore in Asia, and various Caribbean island nations in the Americas|doi=10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.04.004}}</ref>}} in a post–TCJA 26 December 2017 interview in the '']'' said that: "So, if you think about a lot of technology companies that are housed in Ireland and have massive operations there, they’re not going to maybe need those in the same way, and those can be relocated back to the U.S.<ref name="hbr">{{cite web|url=https://hbr.org/ideacast/2017/12/breaking-down-the-new-u-s-corporate-tax-law|title=Breaking Down the New U.S. Corporate Tax Law|publisher=]|author=]|date=26 December 2017|quote=So, if you think about a lot of technology companies that are housed in Ireland and have massive operations there, they’re not going to maybe need those in the same way, and those can be relocated back to the U.S.}}</ref>
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Taylor|title=Trump's U.S. tax reform a significant challenge for
Ireland|publisher=Irish Times|date=30 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="tcja2">{{Cite web|title = U.S. corporations could be saying goodbye to Ireland|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/us-corporations-could-be-saying-goodbye-to-ireland-1.3359050?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Feconomy%2Fus-corporations-could-be-saying-goodbye-to-ireland-1.3359050|publisher=Irish Times|author=Suzanne Lynch|date=17 January 2018}}</ref> Donald Trump had "singled out" Ireland in 2017 speeches promoting the TCJA,<ref>{{cite web|author=Suzanne Lynch| url= https://www.irishtimes.com/business/donald-trump-singles-out-ireland-in-tax-speech-1.3310149?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fbusiness%2Fdonald-trump-singles-out-ireland-in-tax-speech-1.3310149|title=Donald Trump singles out Ireland in tax speech|publisher=Irish Times|date=29 November 2017}}</ref> and Trump administration economic advisor, ], predicted "a flood of companies" would leave Ireland due to the TCJA.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/flood-of-companies-to-leave-ireland-due-to-us-tax-cuts-35206322.html|title='Flood of companies' to leave Ireland due to U.S. tax cuts|author1=Niall O'Connor|author2=Colm Kelpie|author3=Laura Larkin|author4=and Brian Hutton|date=11 November 2017}}</ref> Leading U.S. tax academic, ]{{efn|Desai had written ] with James R. Hines Jr., including the second most cited academic paper on tax havens, ''The demand for tax haven operations'' (2006).<ref name="desai">{{cite journal|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272705001350 |author1=]|author2=C Fritz Foley|author3=]|title=The demand for tax haven operations | journal=] | volume=90 | issue=3 | pages=513–531 | date=February 2006|quote=Examples of such tax havens include Ireland and Luxembourg in Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore in Asia, and various Caribbean island nations in the Americas|doi=10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.04.004}}</ref>}} in a post–TCJA 26 December 2017 interview in the '']'' said that: "So, if you think about a lot of technology companies that are housed in Ireland and have massive operations there, they’re not going to maybe need those in the same way, and those can be relocated back to the U.S.<ref name="hbr">{{cite web|url=https://hbr.org/ideacast/2017/12/breaking-down-the-new-u-s-corporate-tax-law|title=Breaking Down the New U.S. Corporate Tax Law|publisher=]|author=]|date=26 December 2017|quote=So, if you think about a lot of technology companies that are housed in Ireland and have massive operations there, they’re not going to maybe need those in the same way, and those can be relocated back to the U.S.}}</ref>
587:{{quote|''Intellectual Property'': The effective corporation tax rate can be reduced to as low as 2.5% for Irish companies whose trade involves the exploitation of intellectual property. The Irish IP regime is broad and applies to all types of IP. A generous scheme of capital allowances .... in Ireland offer significant incentives to companies who locate their activities in Ireland. A well-known global company recently moved the ownership and exploitation of an IP portfolio worth approximately $ 7 billion to Ireland.|source=Arthur Cox Law Firm,{{efn|name="law"|Arthur Cox is Ireland's largest law firm,<ref name="big">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/big-seven-irish-law-firms-earned-720m-last-year-36238417.html|title='Big Seven' Irish law firms earned €720m last year|publisher=Irish Independent|date=18 October 2017}}</ref> ] describes itself as the Irish law firm with the ''largest tax practice group'', and ] is the world's largest ] law firm}} Uses of Ireland for German Companies (January 2012)<ref name="coxx">{{cite web|url= http://www.finfacts.com/biz10/Ireland_tax_multinationals_IP_intellectual_Property.pdf | title=Uses of Ireland for German Companies: Irish "Intellectual Property" Tax of 2.5% ETR | publisher=Arthur Cox Law Firm|page=3|date=January 2012|quote=Intellectual Property: The effective corporation tax rate can be reduced to as low as 2.5% for Irish companies whose trade involves the exploitation of intellectual property. The Irish IP regime is broad and applies to all types of IP. A generous scheme of capital allowances in Ireland offers significant incentives to companies who locate their activities in Ireland. A well-known global company recently moved the ownership and exploitation of an IP portfolio worth approximately $ 7 billion to Ireland}}</ref><ref name="coxx1">{{cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/firm-gets-tax-relief-on-7bn-rights-211760.html|title=Firm gets tax relief on $ 7bn rights: Accenture| publisher=Irish Examiner|date=24 January 2012|quote=Multinational management consultancy Accenture is receiving tax relief on the $ 7bn (€5.4bn) it spent building up a portfolio of intellectual property rights. The Arthur Cox document, ‘Uses of Ireland for German Companies’, states: “A well-known global company recently moved the ownership and exploitation of an intellectual property portfolio worth approximately $ 7bn to Ireland.”|author=Vincent Ryan}}</ref>}}
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incentivises investment in tangible assets abroad.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-abbvie/how-u-s-tax-reform-rewards-companies-that-shift-profit-to-tax-havens-idUSKBN1JE12Q|title=How U.S. tax reform rewards companies that shift profit to tax havens|author1=Michael Erman|author2=Tom Bergin|publisher=Reuters|date=18 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | title=The
Consequences of the TCJA's International Provisions: Lessons from Existing Research (RP No. 856) | author=] | date=August 2018 | quote=It concludes that the TCJA increases the tax burden on U.S. residence for many, and perhaps most, U.S. MNCs. The paper also argues that the GILTI and “Foreign-Derived Intangible Income” (FDII) provisions are likely to create substantial distortions to the ownership of assets, both in the U.S. and around the world | publisher=University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics|ssrn = 3212072}}</ref> However, a more serious concern, was the acceptance of capital allowances, both tangible and intangible, as deductible against GILTI taxation, which would enable U.S. users of the CAIA BEPS tool to convert their Irish ETR of 0–3%, into a final U.S. ETR of 0–3%.<ref name="harvd">{{cite web|url=https://harvardmagazine.com/2018/05/mihir-desai-tax-reform|title=Tax Reform: Round One|publisher=]|author=]|date=June 2018}}</ref><ref name="brook">{{cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/05/25/6-ways-to-fix-the-tax-system-post-tcja/|title=6 ways to fix the tax system post TCJA|author=]|publisher=]|date=25 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cfr.org/blog/gone-fishing-0|title=Gone Fishing|publisher=]|author=]|date=30 July 2018|quote= most of the profits booked by U.S. firms abroad continue to appear in a few low tax jurisdictions, and well, the resulting data distortions are getting pretty big. I am pretty confident the U.S. tax reform didn't solve the issue of profit-shifting.}}</ref> In May–July 2018, Google and Facebook announced large expansions of their Dublin office campuses in Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://amp.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/google-to-pay-over-115m-to-buy-treasury-building-37154126.html|title=Google, Facebook and Salesforce.com dramatically expand their Dublin office hubs|date=26 July 2018|publisher=Irish Independent}}</ref>
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incentivises investment in tangible assets abroad.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-abbvie/how-u-s-tax-reform-rewards-companies-that-shift-profit-to-tax-havens-idUSKBN1JE12Q|title=How U.S. tax reform rewards companies that shift profit to tax havens|author1=Michael Erman|author2=Tom Bergin|publisher=Reuters|date=18 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | title=The
Consequences of the TCJA's International Provisions: Lessons from Existing Research (RP No. 856) | author=] | date=August 2018 | quote=It concludes that the TCJA increases the tax burden on U.S. residence for many, and perhaps most, U.S. MNCs. The paper also argues that the GILTI and “Foreign-Derived Intangible Income” (FDII) provisions are likely to create substantial distortions to the ownership of assets, both in the U.S. and around the world | publisher=University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics|ssrn = 3212072}}</ref> However, a more serious concern, was the acceptance of capital allowances, both tangible and intangible, as deductible against GILTI taxation, which would enable U.S. users of the CAIA BEPS tool to convert their Irish ETR of 0–3%, into a final U.S. ETR of 0–3%.<ref name="harvd">{{cite web|url=https://harvardmagazine.com/2018/05/mihir-desai-tax-reform|title=Tax Reform: Round One|publisher=]|author=]|date=June 2018}}</ref><ref name="brook">{{cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2018/05/25/6-ways-to-fix-the-tax-system-post-tcja/|title=6 ways to fix the tax system post TCJA|author=]|publisher=]|date=25 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cfr.org/blog/gone-fishing-0|title=Gone Fishing|publisher=]|author=]|date=30 July 2018|quote= most of the profits booked by U.S. firms abroad continue to appear in a few low tax jurisdictions, and well, the resulting data distortions are getting pretty big. I am pretty confident the U.S. tax reform didn't solve the issue of profit-shifting.}}</ref> In May–July 2018, Google and Facebook announced large expansions of their Dublin office campuses in Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://amp.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/google-to-pay-over-115m-to-buy-treasury-building-37154126.html|title=Google, Facebook and Salesforce.com dramatically expand their Dublin office hubs|date=26 July 2018|publisher=Irish Independent}}</ref>
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web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/WILLIAMS_slides.pdf|title=The inversion experience in the US and the UK|publisher=]|author=Mike
Williams (HMRC Director of International Tax)|date=23 January 2015|quote=In 2007 to 2009, WPP, United Business Media, Henderson Group, Shire, Informa, Regus, Charter and Brit Insurance all left the UK. By 2015, WPP, UBM, Henderson Group, Informa and Brit Insurance have all returned}}</ref><ref name="uuk1">{{cite web|url= https://taxfoundation.org/tax-reform-uk-reversed-tide-corporate-tax-inversions/|title=How Tax Reform solved UK inversions|publisher=Tax Foundation|date=14 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="uuk2">{{cite web|url= https://taxfoundation.org/united-kingdom-s-experience-inversions/|title=The United Kingdom's Experience with Inversions|publisher=Tax Foundation|date=5 April 2016}}</ref> and turned the U.K. into one of the leading destinations for U.S. corporate ]s (although Ireland is still the most popular).<ref name="economist">{{cite web|url=https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21608751-restricting-companies-moving-abroad-no-substitute-corporate-tax-reform-how-stop|title=How to stop the inversion perversion|work=]|date=26 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="bloominv">{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/tax-inversion-tracker/|title=Tracking Tax Runaways|publisher=]|date=1 March 2017|quote=Bloomberg Special Reports: Corporate Tax Inversions}}</ref> A similar case study was cited in the switch by Japan in 2009 from a full US "worldwide" tax system (e.g. very high domestic tax rate, partially mitigated by a ''controlled foreign corporation'' regime), to a full "territorial" tax system, with positive results.<ref name="jap1">{{cite web|url=https://taxfoundation.org/japan-disproves-fears-territorial-taxation-0/|title=Japan Disproves Fears of Territorial Taxation|date=13 November 2012|publisher=]|author=TF Editorial}}</ref><ref name="jap2">{{cite web|url=https://taxfoundation.org/global-perspective-territorial-taxation/|title=A Global Perspective on Territorial Taxation|date=10 August 2012|author=Philip Dittmer|quote=Case Studies of transitions from "Worldwide" to "Territorial"}}</ref>
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web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/WILLIAMS_slides.pdf|title=The inversion experience in the US and the UK|publisher=]|author=Mike
Williams (HMRC Director of International Tax)|date=23 January 2015|quote=In 2007 to 2009, WPP, United Business Media, Henderson Group, Shire, Informa, Regus, Charter and Brit Insurance all left the UK. By 2015, WPP, UBM, Henderson Group, Informa and Brit Insurance have all returned}}</ref><ref name="uuk1">{{cite web|url= https://taxfoundation.org/tax-reform-uk-reversed-tide-corporate-tax-inversions/|title=How Tax Reform solved UK inversions|publisher=Tax Foundation|date=14 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="uuk2">{{cite web|url= https://taxfoundation.org/united-kingdom-s-experience-inversions/|title=The United Kingdom's Experience with Inversions|publisher=Tax Foundation|date=5 April 2016}}</ref> and turned the U.K. into one of the leading destinations for U.S. corporate ]s (although Ireland is still the most popular).<ref name="economist">{{cite web|url=https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21608751-restricting-companies-moving-abroad-no-substitute-corporate-tax-reform-how-stop|title=How to stop the inversion perversion|work=]|date=26 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="bloominv">{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/tax-inversion-tracker/|title=Tracking Tax Runaways|publisher=]|date=1 March 2017|quote=Bloomberg Special Reports: Corporate Tax Inversions}}</ref> A similar case study was cited in the switch by Japan in 2009 from a full US "worldwide" tax system (e.g. very high domestic tax rate, partially mitigated by a ''controlled foreign corporation'' regime), to a full "territorial" tax system, with positive results.<ref name="jap1">{{cite web|url=https://taxfoundation.org/japan-disproves-fears-territorial-taxation-0/|title=Japan Disproves Fears of Territorial Taxation|date=13 November 2012|publisher=]|author=TF Editorial}}</ref><ref name="jap2">{{cite web|url=https://taxfoundation.org/global-perspective-territorial-taxation/|title=A Global Perspective on Territorial Taxation|date=10 August 2012|author=Philip Dittmer|quote=Case Studies of transitions from "Worldwide" to "Territorial"}}</ref>
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closed their hybrid–Double Irish BEPS tool.<ref name="eu1"/> In
January 2018, Irish economist ], Chairman of the State's ],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/chairman-fiscal-advisory-council-theres-been-a-very-strong-recovery-we-are-now-living-within-our-means-36500320.html|title=Chairman, Fiscal Advisory Council: 'There's been a very strong recovery - we are now living within our means'|publisher=Irish Independent|date=18 January 2018}}</ref> and author of the State's 2017 ''Review of Ireland's Corporation Tax Code'',<ref name="coffey1">{{cite web|url=http://www.finance.gov.ie/updates/minister-donohoe-publishes-review-of-irelands-corporation-tax-code/|title=Minister Donohoe publishes Review of Ireland's Corporation Tax Code|publisher=Department of Finance|date=21 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="cof3">{{cite web|url=http://www.finance.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170912-Review-of-Irelands-Corporation-Tax-Code.pdf|title=REVIEW OF IRELAND'S CORPORATION TAX CODE, PRESENTED TO THE MINISTER FOR FINANCE AND PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND REFORM BY MR. SEAMUS COFFEY|publisher=Department of Finance|date=30 January 2017}}</ref> showed Apple restructured ASI into the CAIA BEPS tool in Q1 2015.<ref name="cof2">{{cite web|url=http://economic-incentives.blogspot.ie/2018/01/what-apple-did-next.html|title=What Apple did next|publisher=Economic Perspectives, ]|author=Seamus Coffey ]|date=24 January 2018}}</ref><ref name="cofr">{{cite web|url=https://www.cfr.org/blog/tax-avoidance-and-irish-balance-payments|title=Tax Avoidance and the Irish Balance of Payments|publisher=]|author=]|date=25 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="brads">{{Cite web|title=Apple's Exports Aren't Missing: They Are in Ireland|url = https://www.cfr.org/blog/apples-exports-arent-missing-they-are-ireland|publisher=]|author=]|date=30 October 2017}}</ref>
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give the BEPS tool a degree of credibility and substance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.revenue.ie/en/companies-and-charities/reliefs-and-exemptions/capital-allowances-for-intangible-assets/index.aspx|title=Capital allowances for intangible assets|publisher=Irish
Revenue | date=15 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="rev1"/><ref name="ref2">{{cite web|url=https://www.revenue.ie/en/tax-professionals/tdm/income-tax-capital-gains-tax-corporation-tax/part-09/09-02-05.pdf|title=Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets under section 291A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Part 9 / Chapter 2)|publisher=Irish Revenue|date=February 2018}}</ref> In effect, it can equate to an "employment tax" on the Irish subsidiary, however, to the extent that the "relevant activities" are needed within the Group (e.g. they are performing real tasks), then the effect of this "employment tax" is mitigated. While the Irish State has never published the employment metrics for using Irish BEPS tools, the evidence is that even where the "relevant activities" were completely unnecessary, the "employment tax" equates to circa 2–3% of profits ''shifted'' through Ireland (see ]).}}<ref name="acox"/> A "business plan" must be produced with Irish employment and salary levels that are acceptable to the Irish State during the period capital allowances are claimed.{{efn|name="tsg"|In documents released under ] from the Irish Department of Finance ''Tax Strategy Group'', they describe the CAIA BEPS tool as a: "measure was introduced to support the development of the knowledge economy and the provision of high-quality employment.<ref name="tsg1"/><ref name="tsg2"/>}} If the Irish subsidiary is wound up within 5 years,{{efn|For CAIA plans after 13 February 2013; before 13 February 2013, it is 10 years}} the CAIA intangible capital allowances are repayable, which is called "clawback".
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give the BEPS tool a degree of credibility and substance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.revenue.ie/en/companies-and-charities/reliefs-and-exemptions/capital-allowances-for-intangible-assets/index.aspx|title=Capital allowances for intangible assets|publisher=Irish
Revenue | date=15 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="rev1"/><ref name="ref2">{{cite web|url=https://www.revenue.ie/en/tax-professionals/tdm/income-tax-capital-gains-tax-corporation-tax/part-09/09-02-05.pdf|title=Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets under section 291A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Part 9 / Chapter 2)|publisher=Irish Revenue|date=February 2018}}</ref> In effect, it can equate to an "employment tax" on the Irish subsidiary, however, to the extent that the "relevant activities" are needed within the Group (e.g. they are performing real tasks), then the effect of this "employment tax" is mitigated. While the Irish State has never published the employment metrics for using Irish BEPS tools, the evidence is that even where the "relevant activities" were completely unnecessary, the "employment tax" equates to circa 2–3% of profits ''shifted'' through Ireland (see ]).}}<ref name="acox"/> A "business plan" must be produced with Irish employment and salary levels that are acceptable to the Irish State during the period capital allowances are claimed.{{efn|name="tsg"|In documents released under ] from the Irish Department of Finance ''Tax Strategy Group'', they describe the CAIA BEPS tool as a: "measure was introduced to support the development of the knowledge economy and the provision of high-quality employment.<ref name="tsg1"/><ref name="tsg2"/>}} If the Irish subsidiary is wound up within 5 years,{{efn|For CAIA plans after 13 February 2013; before 13 February 2013, it is 10 years}} the CAIA intangible capital allowances are repayable, which is called "clawback".
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example, in 2016, Facebook recorded global revenues of $ 27 billion, while
Facebook in Ireland paid €30 million in Irish tax on Irish revenues of €13 billion (approximately half of all global revenues).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/facebook-paid-just-30m-tax-in-ireland-despite-earning-12bn-36362527.html|title=Facebook paid just €30m tax in Ireland despite earning €12bn|publisher=]|author=Adrian Weckler|date=29 November 2017}}</ref> Similarly, when the EU introduced the ] regulations in 2018, Facebook disclosed that all of its non–U.S. accounts (circa 1.9 billion, of which 1.5 billion were non-E.U), were legally based in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-eu-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-put-1-5-billion-users-out-of-reach-of-new-eu-privacy-law-idUSKBN1HQ00P|title=Exclusive: Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law|publisher=]|author=David Ingram|date=18 April 2018}}</ref> Similarly, Google is also believed to run most of its non–U.S. sales revenue and profits through its Dublin operation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/04/google-pays-47m-euros-tax-ireland-22bn-euros-revenue|title=Google pays €47m in tax in Ireland on €22bn sales revenue|publisher=]|author=Simon Bowers|date=4 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1026612.shtml|title=Google booked 41% of global revenues in Ireland in 2012; A leprechaun's gold?|publisher=Finfacts.ie|date=30 September 2013}}</ref> }} {{efn|name="bush"}}{{efn|name="bush2"}} Traditionally, it was also used with the ] BEPS tool; however, changes to Irish tax law in 2010 dispensed with this requirement for most users.
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example, in 2016, Facebook recorded global revenues of $ 27 billion, while Facebook in Ireland paid €30 million in Irish tax on Irish revenues of €13 billion (approximately half of all global revenues).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/facebook-paid-just-30m-tax-in-ireland-despite-earning-12bn-36362527.html|title=Facebook paid just €30m tax in Ireland despite earning €12bn|publisher=]|author=Adrian Weckler|date=29 November 2017}}</ref> Similarly, when the EU introduced the ] regulations in 2018, Facebook disclosed that all of its non–U.S. accounts (circa 1.9 billion, of which 1.5 billion were non-E.U), were legally based in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-eu-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-put-1-5-billion-users-out-of-reach-of-new-eu-privacy-law-idUSKBN1HQ00P|title=Exclusive: Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law|publisher=]|author=David Ingram|date=18 April 2018}}</ref> Similarly, Google is also believed to run most of its non–U.S. sales revenue and profits through its Dublin operation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/04/google-pays-47m-euros-tax-ireland-22bn-euros-revenue|title=Google pays €47m in tax in Ireland on €22bn sales revenue|publisher=]|author=Simon Bowers|date=4 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1026612.shtml|title=Google booked 41% of global revenues in Ireland in 2012; A leprechaun's gold?|publisher=Finfacts.ie|date=30 September 2013}}</ref> }}
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BEPS tools.<ref name="zucwright"/><ref name="japantimes"/> In 2016, leading tax academic ], showed that multinationals from "territorial" tax systems, the system used by almost all global economies bar a handful but which included the US,{{efn|name="worldwide"|Before the passing of the TCJA in December 2017, the US was one of eight remaining jurisdictions to run a "worldwide" taxation system, which was the principal obstacle to US corporate tax reform, as it was not possible to differentiate between the source of income. The seven other "worldwide" tax systems, are: Chile, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Korea, Mexico, and Poland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13205.pdf|title=Territorial vs. Worldwide Corporate Taxation: Implications for Developing Countries|publisher=IMF| date=2013|page=4}}</ref> The positive experience of the UK switch to a "territorial" system in 2009-12,<ref name="uuk1"/><ref name="uuk2"/> and the Japanese switch to a "territorial" system in 2009,<ref name="jap1"/> amongst others,<ref name="jap2"/> was continually highlighted by US tax academics.}} make little use of tax havens.<ref name="hines2016"/>
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tools, or ], including those that had recently switched, such as Japan (2009), and the UK (2009–12). By 2018, non–US tax academics showed US multinationals were the largest users of BEPS tools and Ireland was the largest global BEPS hub or tax haven. They showed Ireland was almost exclusively a US corporate tax haven, and that US multinationals represented the largest component of the Irish economy, and that Ireland had failed to attract multinationals from "territorial" tax systems.{{efn|name="taxhaven"|It is believed that Ireland's extreme economic exposure to US corporate BEPS activity, had led Ireland to expand into more traditional ]–type tools, such as the '']'' (designed to compete with the Cayman Islands SPC), and the '']'' (designed to compete with the Luxembourg SPV).<ref name="ftt">{{Cite web|title = Ireland enjoys tax boom but fears a reckoning: Dublin concerned about reliance on revenue from small group of multinational companies|url = https://www.ft.com/content/c69ed976-fbab-11e7-9b32-d7d59aace167|publisher=]|author=Authur Beesley|date=31 January 2018}}</ref>}}
627:{{quote|''Structure 1'': The profits of the Irish company will typically be subject to the corporation tax rate of 12.5% if the company has the requisite level of substance to be considered trading. The tax depreciation and interest expense can reduce the effective rate of tax to a minimum of 2.5%.|source=] Law Firm,{{efn|name="law"}} Irish Intellectual Property Tax Regime (February 2018)<ref name="maples">{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/377485537/Maples-and-Calder-Ireland-Intellectual-Property-2018|title=Maples and Calder Irish Intellectual Property Tax Regime - 2.5% Effective Tax| publisher=] Law Firm|date=February 2018|quote=Structure 1: The profits of the Irish company will typically be subject to the corporation tax rate of 12.5% if the company has the requisite level of substance to be considered trading. The tax depreciation and interest expense can reduce the effective rate of tax to a minimum of 2.5%}}</ref>}}
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https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-08-10/vantiv-won-t-be-the-last-buyer-to-forego-an-inversion|title=Vantiv decides against Inversion|publisher=Bloomberg News|date=10 December 2017}}</ref> In March 2018, the Head of Life Sciences in '']'', Jami Rubin, stated that: "Now that corporate tax reform has passed, the advantages of being an ] company are less obvious".<ref name="example2"/> In August 2018, U.S. multinational ], who had been headquartered in Ireland since 2001, announced that as a result of the TCJA, it was moving back to the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/us-tech-firm-leaves-ireland-for-us-after-trump-tax-cuts-37268690.html|title=U.S. tech firm leaves Ireland for U.S. after Trump tax cuts|author=Gavin McLaughlin|publisher=Irish Independent|date=31 August 2018}}</ref>
6971:(23-26) Tax relief for acquisition of intangible assets: A number of amendments to the scheme were made in Finance Act 2010 on foot, among other reasons, of the recommendations of the Innovation Taskforce Report. (1) The period in which a specified intangible asset must be used in the trade to avoid a clawback of allowances was reduced from 15 years to 10 years. (2) The list of specified intangible assets covered by the scheme was augmented by the inclusion of applications for the grant or registration of patents, copyright etc. and a broader definition of "know-how". (3) Relief will now be available for capital expenditure incurred prior to the commencement of a trade on the provision of specified intangible assets for the purposes of the trade.
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3020:("TCJA"), and as a result, forecast the demise of Irish BEPS tools. However, by mid–2018, other tax academics, including the IMF, noted technical flaws in the TCJA had increased the attractiveness of Ireland's BEPS tools, and the CAIA BEPS tool in particular, which post-TCJA, delivered a total effective tax rate ("ETR") of 0–3% on profits that can be fully repatriated to the US without incurring any additional US taxation. In July 2018, one of Ireland's leading tax economists forecasted a "boom" in the use of the Irish CAIA BEPS tool, as US multinationals close existing Double Irish BEPS schemes before the 2020 deadline.
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463:. However, by mid–2018, other tax academics, including the IMF, noted technical flaws in the TCJA had increased the attractiveness of Ireland's BEPS tools, and the CAIA BEPS tool in particular, which post-TCJA, delivered a total effective tax rate ("ETR") of 0–3% on profits that can be fully repatriated to the US without incurring any additional US taxation. In July 2018, one of Ireland's leading tax economists forecasted a "boom" in the use of the Irish CAIA BEPS tool, as US multinationals close existing Double Irish BEPS schemes before the 2020 deadline.
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796:]s who are US–controlled). Eurostat (2015).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://economic-incentives.blogspot.com/2018/06/who-shifts-profits-to-ireland.html|title=Who shifts profits to Ireland|publisher=Economic Incentives, ]|author=Seamus Coffey, ]|date=18 June 2018|quote=Eurostat’s structural business statistics give a range of measures of the business economy broken down by the controlling country of the enterprises. Here is the Gross Operating Surplus generated in Ireland in 2015 for the countries with figures reported by Eurostat.}}</ref>]]
789:]s who are US–controlled). Eurostat (2015).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://economic-incentives.blogspot.com/2018/06/who-shifts-profits-to-ireland.html|title=Who shifts profits to Ireland|publisher=Economic Incentives, ]|author=Seamus Coffey, ]|date=18 June 2018|quote=Eurostat’s structural business statistics give a range of measures of the business economy broken down by the controlling country of the enterprises. Here is the Gross Operating Surplus generated in Ireland in 2015 for the countries with figures reported by Eurostat.}}</ref>]]
4098:, paid 80% of Irish business taxes, and directly employed 25% of the Irish labour force, and created 57% of Irish value-add. The past President of the Irish Tax Institute stated they pay 50% of all Irish salary taxes (due to higher paying jobs), 50% of all Irish VAT, and 92% of all Irish customs and excise duties. The American-Ireland Chamber of Commerce estimated the value of US investment in Ireland in 2018 was €334 billion, exceeding Irish GDP (€291 billion in 2016), and exceeding the combined investment of US investment in the
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extraordinary {{slink|#Concentration of U.S. multinationals}} in Ireland's economy, and the equal failure of Ireland to attract non-U.S. multinationals or any multinationals from "territorial" tax systems. While Ireland sometimes describes itself as a "global knowledge hub for selling into Europe", it is more accurately described as a U.S. corporate tax haven for shielding non-U.S. revenues from the historical U.S. "worldwide" tax system.<ref name="desai"/>{{efn|name="taxhaven"}}
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regulations that enabled U.S. multinationals to avoid some of these rules by electing to treat their foreign subsidiaries as if they were not corporations but disregarded entities for tax purposes. This move is called “checking the box” because that is all that needs to be done on IRS form 8832 to make it work and use Irish BEPS tools on non–U.S. revenues was a compromise to keep U.S. multinationals from leaving the U.S. (page 10.)
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Ireland's BEPS tools, and the CAIA BEPS tool in particular, which post-TCJA, delivered a total effective tax rate ("ETR") of 0–3% on profits that can be fully repatriated to the US without incurring any additional US taxation. In July 2018, one of Ireland's leading tax economists forecasted a "boom" in the use of the Irish CAIA BEPS tool, as US multinationals close existing Double Irish BEPS schemes before the 2020 deadline.
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achieve U.S. ETRs, which net of the TCJA's 100% capital relief provisions, are similar to the ETRs they would achieve in Ireland when the TCJA's new GILTI provisions are taken into account (e.g. ETR of circa 11–12%). In Q1 2018, U.S. multinationals like Pfizer announced in Q1 2018, a post-TCJA global tax rate for 2019 of circa 17%, which is close to the circa 15–16% 2019 tax rate announced by past U.S. corporate
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end-consumer market, (b) from taxation in Ireland, and (c) from US taxation. The 2017 TCJA placed a 15.5% US tax on these untaxed profits, and they were deemed to be automatically repatriated (regardless of whether the US multinational wanted to repatriate the untaxed profits or not).}} and was the main tool by which US multinationals built up untaxed offshore reserves of US$ 1 trillion from 2004 to 2018.
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5012:: It was interesting that when Matt Carthy put that to the Minister's predecessor (Michael Noonan), his response was that this was very unpatriotic and he should wear the green jersey. That was the former Minister's response to the fact there is a major loophole, whether intentional or unintentional, in our tax code that has allowed large companies to continue to use the Double Irish .
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request that royalties like Google's should be able to flow directly to units in Bermuda and Cayman without being taxed. In 2008, O'Rourke's cousin Brian Lenihan became finance minister, setting much of the Revenue's policy. Two years later, after continued entreaties by O'Rourke, the Revenue's office announced that it would no longer impose withholding taxes on such transactions.
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3069:, ensuring that its German profits are zero. The $ 95 is paid to the location in which the IP is legally housed. Microsoft would prefer to house this IP in a tax haven, however, higher-tax locations like Germany do not sign full tax treaties with tax havens, and would not accept the IP charged from a tax haven as deductible against German taxation. The
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allowances, both tangible and intangible, as deductible against GILTI taxation, which would enable U.S. users of the CAIA BEPS tool to convert their Irish ETR of 0–3%, into a final U.S. ETR of 0–3%. In May–July 2018, Google and Facebook announced large expansions of their Dublin office campuses in Ireland.
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and could "hamper global investment and growth due to uncertainty around taxation". The letter said that "keeping the current standard will make Ireland a more attractive location for a regional headquarters by reducing the level of uncertainty in the tax relationship with Ireland's trading partners".
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representing a coalition of 24 multinational U.S. software firms, including Microsoft, lobbied Michael Noonan, as minister for finance, to resist the proposals in January 2017. In a letter to him, the group recommended Ireland not adopt article 12, as the changes "will have effects lasting decades"
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U.S. multinationals use tax havens more than multinationals from other countries which have kept their controlled foreign corporations regulations. No other non-haven OECD country records as high a share of foreign profits booked in tax havens as the United States. This suggests that half of all the
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Brussels is challenging the "Double Irish" tax avoidance measure prized by big U.S. tech and pharma groups, putting pressure on Dublin to close it down or face a full-blown investigation. The initial enquiries have signalled that Brussels wants Dublin to call time on the tax gambit, which has helped
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In March–April 2018, major U.S. tax law firms showed that pre the TCJA, U.S. multinationals with the IP needed to use Irish BEPS tools, would achieve effective Irish tax rates ("ETR") of 0–3% versus 35% under the historical U.S. system. However, post the TCJA, these multinationals can use their IP to
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In December 2017, the Irish Government accepted the recommendation of Coffey that the corporation tax relief for the Irish CAIA BEPS tool be capped at 80% for new arrangements, to restore the CAIA's effective Irish corporate tax rate ("ETR") back to 2.5%. This was enacted in the 2017 Finance Budget,
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As with all Irish BEPS tools, the Irish subsidiary must conduct a "relevant trade" on the acquired IP. A "business plan" must be produced with Irish employment and salary levels that are acceptable to the Irish State during the period capital allowances are claimed. If the Irish subsidiary is wound
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accounting techniques. U.S. congressional investigations into the tax practices of U.S. multinationals were aware of such BEPS tools for many years. However, the U.S. did not try to force the closure of the Double Irish BEPS tool, instead it was the EU which forced Ireland to close the Double Irish
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O'Rourke set out to simplify those structures, eliminating the need for a Dutch intermediary. In October 2007, he met at Google's Dublin headquarters on Barrow Street with Tadhg O'Connell, the head of the Revenue division that audits tech companies. O'Connell is understood to have rejected O'Rourke's
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As with all Irish BEPS tools, the Irish subsidiary must conduct a "relevant trade" on the IP in Ireland. A "business plan" must be produced with Irish employment and salary levels that are acceptable to the Irish State during the period the BEPS tool is in operation. Despite these requirements, the
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In June 2018, tax academics showed that Ireland had become the world's largest global BEPS hub,<ref name="gabrielzucmanx"/> or corporate-focused tax haven.<ref name="zuc10"/><ref name="zuc11"/> In September 2018, tax academics showed that US multinationals were the largest users of
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During Q1 2018, Coffey, and international economists,<ref name="cofr"/><ref name="brads"/> proved Ireland's 2015 "]" GDP growth of 33.4%, was almost solely attributable to Apple's new CAIA BEPS tool. Coffey noted the significance of Apple's endorsement of the CAIA BEPS tool, given Apple's
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Using a structure dubbed the "single malt", some US multinationals have been using Irish-registered, Malta-resident, companies to cut tax liabilities in countries where they sell their goods and services. Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe confirmed on Tuesday that a new agreement between Revenue
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Before 1996, the United States, like other high-income countries, had anti-avoidance rules—known as “controlled foreign corporations” provisions—designed to immediately tax in the United States some foreign income (such as royalties and interest) conducive of profit shifting. In 1996, the IRS issued
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The CAIA and Double Irish (and Single Malt) share the same basic components and techniques (e.g. an intangible asset needs to be created and significantly re-valued in a tax haven). The key differences between the CAIA BEPS tool and the Double Irish (and Single Malt) BEPS tools are noted as follows:
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Apple was not using the standard Double Irish arrangement of two Irish companies (IRL1 in Ireland, and IRL2 in Bermuda). Instead, Apple combined the functions of the two companies inside one Irish company (namely, Apple Sales International, or ASI), which was split into two internal "branches". The
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Germany taxes only 5% of the active foreign business profits of its resident corporations. Furthermore, German firms do not have incentives to structure their foreign operations in ways that avoid repatriating income. Therefore, the tax incentives for German firms to establish tax haven affiliates
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Another sophisticated loophole in the tax system means the removal of the "Double Irish" tax-avoidance strategy won't actually have any real impact for U.S. firms in Ireland seeking to lower their tax bills. An influential U.S. tax journal has found that the Irish subsidiaries of U.S. companies can
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in Ireland's economy, and the equal failure of Ireland to attract non-U.S. multinationals or any multinationals from "territorial" tax systems. While Ireland sometimes describes itself as a "global knowledge hub for selling into Europe", it is more accurately described as a U.S. corporate tax haven
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In 2015 there were a number of “balance-sheet relocations” with companies who had acquired IP while resident outside the country becoming Irish-resident. It is possible that companies holding IP for which capital allowances are currently being claimed could become non-resident and remove themselves
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made additional amendments to the rules regarding the acquisition of intangible assets from "connected parties", and the "employment tax" users of the CAIA BEPS tool must pay. The 2012 Finance Act removed the minimum amortisation period for the acquired intangible assets, and reduced the "clawback"
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of a U.S. multinational's non–U.S. business. However, the CAIA is more powerful, as Apple demonstrated by effectively doubling the tax shield (e.g. to US$ 600 billion in allowances), via Irish interest relief on the intergroup virtual loans used to purchase the IP. While Apple's CAIA had an ETR of
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A hypothetical multinational with an equity market capitalisation of €1,000 million, but tangible assets of €100 million, can argue that the gap of €900 million represents its intangible asset base, which can be legally created and appropriately located. Ireland's Capital Allowances for Intangible
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Despite US knowledge about the Double Irish for a decade, it was the EU who forced Ireland to close the scheme in October 2014, starting January 2015. However, users of existing schemes, such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and Pfizer, were given until January 2020 to close them. At the announcement of
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As with all Irish BEPS tools, the Irish subsidiary must conduct a "relevant trade" on the acquired IP.{{efn|name="employment"|Under Section 291A of the ''1997 Irish Tax and Consolidated Acts'', users of Irish BEPS tools must conduct a "relevant trade" and perform "relevant activities" in Ireland to
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As with all Irish BEPS tools, the Irish subsidiary must conduct a "relevant trade" on the acquired IP.{{efn|name="employment"|Under Section 291A of the ''1997 Irish Tax and Consolidated Acts'', users of Irish BEPS tools must conduct a "relevant trade" and perform "relevant activities" in Ireland to
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Despite US knowledge about the Double Irish for a decade, it was the EU who forced Ireland to close the scheme in October 2014, starting January 2015. However, users of existing schemes, such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and Pfizer, were given until January 2020 to close them. At the announcement of
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Despite US knowledge about the Double Irish for a decade, it was the EU who forced Ireland to close the scheme in October 2014, starting January 2015. However, users of existing schemes, such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and Pfizer, were given until January 2020 to close them. At the announcement of
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When the Irish State applied a cap of 80% on the total amount of Irish intangible capital allowances that can be used against taxable profits in any year, it gave an Irish effective tax rate ("ETR") of 2.5%, being the Irish corporation tax rate of 12.5% multiplied by 20%. Therefore, the ETR of the
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While various sources quote the amount of untaxed cash reserves as being closer to USD 2 trillion, a component of this figure represents cash flow that is awaiting reinvestment in the overseas markets, non-cash assets, and U.S. banking flows; the strong consensus is that the pure cash figure is at
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A June 2018 IMF country report on Ireland, while noting the significant exposure of Ireland's economy to U.S. corporates, concluded that the TCJA may not be as effective as Washington expects in addressing Ireland as a U.S. corporate tax haven. In writing its report, the IMF conducted confidential
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As a "carrot", the TCJA enables these firms to charge out their IP globally (just like with a Double Irish or Single Malt arrangement) but from a U.S. base, at a preferential FDII tax rate of 13.125% . In addition, the extra reliefs of 100% capital expensing, and 21% relief on U.S. costs, make the
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Tax academics show multinationals from countries with "territorial" tax systems make little use of tax havens like Ireland. Since the UK changed its tax regime to a "territorial" system in 2009–12, Ireland has failed to attract corporates from any other jurisdiction except the US, one of the last
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For example, in Q1 2015, Apple used the CAIA tool when its Irish subsidiary purchased US$ 300 billion in intangible assets from an Apple subsidiary based in Jersey. The CAIA tool enabled Apple to write-off the US$ 300 billion price as a capital allowance against future Irish profits (e.g. the next
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for IRL1 as it is clearly a foreign subsidiary selling to non–U.S. locations. The U.S. tax code will rightly ignore IRL1 from U.S. tax calculations. However, because the U.S. tax code also views IRL2 as foreign (i.e. Irish), it also ignores the transactions between IRL1 and IRL2 (even though they
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The use of private "unlimited liability company" (ULC) status, which exempts companies from filing financial reports publicly. The fact that Apple, Google and many others continue to keep their Irish financial information secret is due to a failure by the Irish government to implement the 2013 EU
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It concludes that the TCJA increases the tax burden on U.S. residence for many, and perhaps most, U.S. MNCs. The paper also argues that the GILTI and "Foreign-Derived Intangible Income" (FDII) provisions are likely to create substantial distortions to the ownership of assets, both in the U.S. and
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By our reckoning, the 500 largest U.S. nonfinancial companies have now accumulated around $ 1 trillion more than their businesses need. The majority of this is held offshore, in non-U.S. overseas subsidiaries, to avoid the incremental U.S. income taxes they would pay if they repatriated the money
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attracting Irish capital allowances deductible against Irish taxable profits. These "specified intangible assets" cover more esoteric intangibles such as types of general rights, general know-how, general goodwill, and the right to use software. It includes types of "internally developed" group
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scheme, no Irish withholding tax is payable as Ireland does not levy withholding tax on transfers within EU states. In addition, under the Dutch tax code DUT1 can send money to IRL2 under another royalty scheme without incurring Dutch withholding tax, as the Dutch do not charge withholding tax on
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in Ireland (so under the U.S. tax code it is Irish), but which is "managed and controlled" from Bermuda (so under the Irish tax code it is from Bermuda). IRL2 will be placed between BER1 and IRL1 (i.e. owned by BER1, and owning IRL1). Up until the 2015 shut-down of the Double Irish, the Irish tax
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In January 2018, there was ] over Apple's CAIA BEPS tool when Coffey pointed out that it is prohibited under Ireland's tax code (Section 291A(c) of the Taxes and Consolation Act 1997), to use the CAIA BEPS tool for reasons that are not "commercial bona fide reasons", and in schemes where the main
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The EU Commission's 30 August 2016 findings against Apple's hybrid–Double Irish BEPS tool, Apple Sales International ("ASI"), covered the period from 2004 to end 2014 (see above). The EU's August 2016 report on Apple, notes that Apple had informed the Commission at the start of 2015 that they had
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In simple terms, Apple gave its Irish subsidiary a USD 300 billion intergroup loan to buy the intangible assets from the Apple subsidiary in Jersey. Apple in Ireland can charge the interest on this intergroup loan against Irish tax, while the Apple subsidiary in Jersey, who is receiving the loan
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US tax academics showed as far back as 1994, that US multinational use of tax havens and BEPS tools had maximised long-term US exchequer receipts. They showed that multinationals from "territorial" tax systems, which all but a handful of countries follow,{{efn|name="worldwide"}} did not use BEPS
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The '''Double Irish''' is a ] ("BEPS") corporate tax tool, used mostly by US multinationals since the late 1980s, to avoid corporate taxation on most non–U.S. profits.{{efn|name="mistake"|The ''Double Irish'' is sometimes misunderstood as being only used for EU–sourced revenues and business. For
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U.S. companies are the most aggressive users of profit-shifting techniques, which often relocate paper profits without bringing jobs and wages, according to the study by economists Thomas Torslov and Ludvig Wier of the University of Copenhagen and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California,
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As a "stick", the TCJA GILTI tax rate forces these firms to pay a minimum U.S. tax rate of 10.5% on their global IP, regardless of where their IP is located. In addition, only getting 80% relief (not 100%), against foreign taxes paid, means that the effective GILTI rate is 1–2% higher again (or
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In November 2018, the Irish Government amended the Ireland–Malta tax treaty to prevent the Single Malt BEPS tool being used between Ireland and Malta (it can still be used with the UAE for example); however, the exact closure date of the Irish Single Malt BEPS tool with Malta was deferred until
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The Single Malt is also an IP–based BEPS tool, and as a small variation of the Double Irish, required little additional development, except choosing specific locations with the necessary specific wording in their Irish bilateral tax treaties (e.g. Malta and the UAE); thus the basic structure is
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The U.S. didn't sign the groundbreaking tax treaty inked by 68 countries in Paris June 7, because the U.S. tax treaty network has a low degree of exposure to base erosion and profit shifting issues", a U.S. Department of Treasury official said at a transfer pricing conference co-sponsored by
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Figures released in April 2017 show that since 2015 there has been a dramatic increase in companies using Ireland as a low-tax or no-tax jurisdiction for intellectual property (IP) and the income accruing to it, via a nearly 1000% increase in the uptake of a tax break expanded between 2014 and
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However, in contrast, it was reported in May–July 2018, that U.S. tax academics and tax economists were discovering ] that incentivise the U.S. use of tax havens like Ireland. Of particular note was the exclusion from the GILTI tax of the first 10% of profits on overseas tangible assets, which
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However, in contrast, it was reported in May–July 2018, that U.S. tax academics and tax economists were discovering ] that incentivise the U.S. use of tax havens like Ireland. Of particular note was the exclusion from the GILTI tax of the first 10% of profits on overseas tangible assets, which
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As the TCJA was being passed in December 2017, the new corporate tax provisions were recognised by the Irish media, as a challenge.<ref name="tcja1">{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/trump-s-us-tax-reform-a-significant-challenge-for-ireland-1.3310866|author=Cliff
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Irish BEPS tools are not overtly marketed as brochures showing near-zero effective tax rates ("ETR") would damage Ireland's ability to sign and operate bilateral tax treaties (i.e. higher-tax countries do not sign full treaties with known tax havens).{{efn|name="treaty"}} However, in the Irish
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US tax academics advocated the US switch to a "territorial" tax system in the December 2017 ] ("TCJA"), and as a result, forecast the demise of Irish BEPS tools. However, by mid–2018, other tax academics, including the IMF, noted technical flaws in the TCJA had increased the attractiveness of
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US tax academics showed as far back as 1994, that US multinational use of BEPS tools had maximised long-term US exchequer receipts. They showed that multinationals from "territorial" tax systems, which all but a handful of countries follow,{{efn|name="worldwide"}} did not use BEPS tools, or ],
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The total value of U.S. business investment in Ireland - ranging from data centres to the world's most advanced manufacturing facilities - stands at $ 387bn (€334bn) - this is more than the combined U.S. investment in South America, Africa and the Middle East, and more than the BRIC countries
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countries. The US multinational subsidiaries in Ireland, are not simply used for booking EU sales, in most cases, they handle the entire non–US business of the Group. Apart from US corporates, and legacy UK corporates (pre 2009–12), there are no foreign corporates in Ireland's top 50 firms.
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As discussed in {{slink|#Controversial closure (2015)}}, Hines had shown as early as 1994, that under the U.S. "worldwide" tax system, U.S. multinational use of tax havens and BEPS tools, had increased long-term U.S. exchequer returns. Academics point to these facts as the explanation for the
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As discussed in {{slink|#Controversial closure (2015)}}, Hines had shown as early as 1994, that under the U.S. "worldwide" tax system, U.S. multinational use of tax havens and BEPS tools, had increased long-term U.S. exchequer returns. Academics point to these facts as the explanation for the
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is sometimes misunderstood as being only used for EU–sourced revenues and business. For example, in 2016, Facebook recorded global revenues of $ 27 billion, while Facebook in Ireland paid €30 million in Irish tax on Irish revenues of €13 billion (approximately half of all global revenues).
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that incentivise the U.S. use of tax havens like Ireland. Of particular note was the exclusion from the GILTI tax of the first 10% of profits on overseas tangible assets, which incentivises investment in tangible assets abroad. However, a more serious concern, was the acceptance of capital
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It is the largest tax avoidance tool in history and by 2010, was shielding US$ 100 billion annually in US multinational foreign profits from taxation,{{efn|Before the US 2017 TCJA repatriation tax, the Double Irish shielded all non–US profits of US multinationals from: (a) taxation in the
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Suggestions that Ireland are a tax haven simply because of our longstanding 12.5% corporate tax rate are totally out of line with the agreed global consensus that a low corporate tax rate applied to a wide tax base is good economic policy for attracting investment and supporting economic
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Lower foreign tax rates entail smaller credits for foreign taxes and greater ultimate U.S. tax collections (Hines and Rice, 1994). Dyreng and Lindsey (2009), offer evidence that U.S. firms with foreign affiliates in certain tax havens pay lower foreign taxes and higher U.S. taxes than do
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New Irish Tax Structure|publisher=]|author=Naomi Fowler|date=25 June 2018}}</ref><ref name="emma">{{cite web|url= http://src.bna.com/zNy|title=Apple's Irish Tax Deals|publisher=] EU Parliament|author1=Martin Brehm Christensen|author2=Emma Clancy|date=21 June 2018}}</ref>
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Prior to opening a Single Malt structure, Teleflex operated a Double Irish tax structure, according to Christian Aid. "Since Teleflex set up its Double Irish structure, through this and other tax strategies its global effective tax rate has dropped to just over 3 per cent," the NGO
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Hines, and others, had previously quoted the example of the U.K., who transitioned from a "worldwide" system to a "territorial" system in 2009-2012, which led to a reversal of many UK inversions to Ireland, and turned the U.K. into one of the leading destinations for U.S. corporate
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regulations in 2018, Facebook disclosed that all of its non–U.S. accounts (circa 1.9 billion, of which 1.5 billion were non-E.U), were legally based in Dublin. Similarly, Google is also believed to run most of its non–U.S. sales revenue and profits through its Dublin operation.
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but only for new CAIA BEPS schemes (e.g. Apple's 2015 CAIA scheme would not be affected). Given the dramatic take-up in the CAIA tool in 2015, when the cap lifted (e.g. the ETR was 0%), Irish commentators challenged Coffey's recommendation. He responded in a paper in late 2017.
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The earliest recorded versions of the Double Irish-type BEPS tools are by Apple in the late 1980s, and the EU discovered Irish Revenue tax rulings on the Double Irish for Apple in 1991. Irish State documents released to the Irish national archives in December 2018 showed that
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purpose is "... the avoidance of, or reduction in, liability to tax". In addition, it was realised in hindsight, that changes former Finance Minister ] made in the Irish 2015 Finance Budget, was to ensure the ETR of Apple's CAIA tool was reduced to zero.<ref name="app1"/>
323:] closed the Double Irish BEPS tool to new entrants in October 2014 (existing schemes to close by 2020), but expanded the CAIA BEPS tool as a replacement in 2011–2016, and famously told an Irish ] who alerted him to the Single Malt BEPS tool, to "]".<ref name="pearse"/>]]
316:] closed the Double Irish BEPS tool to new entrants in October 2014 (existing schemes to close by 2020), but expanded the CAIA BEPS tool as a replacement in 2011–2016, and famously told an Irish ] who alerted him to the Single Malt BEPS tool, to "]".<ref name="pearse"/>]]
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Finally, we find that U.S. firms with operations in some tax haven countries have higher federal tax rates on foreign income than other firms. This result suggests that in some cases, tax haven operations may increase U.S. tax collections at the expense of foreign country tax
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Assets program enables these intangible assets to be turned into tax deductible charges. With appropriate structuring, the intergroup acquisition financing for the purchase of these intangible assets, can also be used to further amplify the quantum of tax deductible charges.
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But Mr Kenny noted that Oxfam included Ireland's 12.5 per cent corporation tax rate as one of the factors for deeming it a tax haven. "The 12.5 per cent is fully in line with the OECD and international best practice in having a low rate and applying it to a very wide tax
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US tax academics showed as far back as 1994, that US multinational use of BEPS tools had maximised long-term US exchequer receipts. They showed that multinationals from "territorial" tax systems, which all but a handful of countries follow, did not use BEPS tools, or
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However, Mr O'Rourke, who is also a cousin of the late Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, told Bloomberg that changes in Ireland and across the globe on tax was inevitable. Mr O'Rourke was also a member of the Government's Commission on Taxation, which sat in 2008 and
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While there have been variations (e.g. Apple), the standard Double Irish arrangement, in simplified form, takes the following structure (note that the steps below initially exclude the Dutch sandwich component for simplicity, which is explained in the next section;
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Ever hear of a Double Irish? It's not a drink, but one of the dodgy tax strategies that help American companies keep their profits nearly tax free abroad. Such strategies are at the heart of what may well turn out to be the most important corporate tax case in
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Meanwhile, through a myriad of subsidiaries and system of inter-company charges involving a variation on the infamous so-called 'double Irish' structure, its local operations have also legally shaved their tax bills with the Exchequer despite pulling in huge
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Eurostat's structural business statistics give a range of measures of the business economy broken down by the controlling country of the enterprises. Here is the Gross Operating Surplus generated in Ireland in 2015 for the countries with figures reported by
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to new schemes in October 2014. Even still, existing users of the Double Irish BEPS tool (e.g. Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, amongst many others), were given five more years until January 2020, before the tool would be fully shut-down to all users.
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Why, then, when we look at debt on a per-capita basis, is it still so high? Per person, the Irish are right up the top of the leaderboard, with government debt per person of $ 45,941 (€43,230) as of March 1st, behind only Japan ($ 80,465) and the US ($
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As the TCJA was being passed in December 2017, the new corporate tax provisions were recognised by the Irish media, as a challenge. Donald Trump had "singled out" Ireland in 2017 speeches promoting the TCJA, and Trump administration economic advisor,
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saying: "In order to retain the maximum tax advantage, US corporations will wish to locate FSCs in a country where they will have to pay little or no tax. Therefore unless FSCs are given favourable tax treatment in Ireland, they will not locate here."
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We also know that the cash component of that is about $ 1 trillion. Therefore, we know from this that we're not talking simply about foreign investment in real foreign assets because somewhere in the neighborhood of $ 1 trillion is in cash and cash
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The new agreement will not come into force until near the end of September 2019 but a Department of Finance spokesman said that this would effectively shut off the loophole immediately because companies needed a lead-in time of about a year to use
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Applying Hines and Rice's (1994) findings to a statutory corporate rate reduction of 15 percentage points (from 35 to 20 percent) suggests that reduced profit shifting would result in more than $ 140 billion of repatriated profit based on 2016
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Earlier this year, anti-poverty charity Oxfam had estimated U.S. companies had $ 1.4tn in subsidiaries based offshore, while the $ 1.68tn that Moody's estimates is being stashed by U.S. companies is a sum equivalent to the size of the Canadian
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to protect the Single Malt BEPS tool (it was also later pointed out in September 2018, that Malta had similarly opted out of Article 4 of the initiative to enable it to be the recipient of the Single Malt). The then Irish Finance Minister
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Hines, and others, had previously quoted the example of the U.K., who transitioned from a "worldwide" system to a "territorial" system in 2009-2012, which led to a reversal of many UK inversions to Ireland,<ref name="HMRC">{{cite
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Hines, and others, had previously quoted the example of the U.K., who transitioned from a "worldwide" system to a "territorial" system in 2009-2012, which led to a reversal of many UK inversions to Ireland,<ref name="HMRC">{{cite
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most of the profits booked by U.S. firms abroad continue to appear in a few low tax jurisdictions, and well, the resulting data distortions are getting pretty big. I am pretty confident the U.S. tax reform didn't solve the issue of
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financial crisis, some Irish tax law firms in the ] produced CAIA brochures openly marketing that its ETR was 2.5%.{{efn|name="cap"}}<ref name="maples"/><ref name="mhc"/><ref name="acox"/><ref name="coxx"/>
4075:(e.g. BEPS tools artificially inflated Ireland's GDP by 62%). In contrast EU–28 2017 GDP was 100% of GNI. Irish public indebtedness changes dramatically depending on whether Debt-to-GDP, Debt-to-GNI* or Debt-per-Capita is used (
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Together the seven tax havens with populations greater than one million (Hong Kong, Ireland, Liberia, Lebanon, Panama, Singapore, and Switzerland) account for 80 percent of total tax haven population and 89 percent of tax haven
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interest, pays no tax. If a rate of circa 7% was used, and the loan runs for 15 years, the full amortisation period of the CAIA, that will add another USD 315 billion in Irish tax relief from loan interest charges paid to Jersey
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said that: "So, if you think about a lot of technology companies that are housed in Ireland and have massive operations there, they’re not going to maybe need those in the same way, and those can be relocated back to the U.S.
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The tax deduction can be used to achieve an effective tax rate of 2.5% on profits from the exploitation of the IP purchased. Provided the IP is held for five years, a subsequent disposal of the IP will not result in a
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CAIA is often described as being 0-2.5%, depending on the Irish State rules regarding caps. During Apple's creation of an Irish CAIA BEPS tool in 2015, the CAIA cap was temporarily lifted to 100% (e.g. the ETR was 0%).
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As a result of the Bush Administration's efforts, the OECD backed away from its efforts to target "harmful tax practices" and shifted the scope of its efforts to improving exchanges of tax information between member
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in relation to the closure of the Double Irish that "A lot of emphasis has been put on residency rules and I think that emphasis has been misplaced and the changes didn’t have that much effect". On 3 January 2019,
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Scott Dyreng; Bradley P. Lindsey (12 October 2009). "Using Financial Accounting Data to Examine the Effect of Foreign Operations Located in Tax Havens and Other Countries on U.S. Multinational Firms' Tax Rates".
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The 2014–16 EU investigation into Apple in Ireland (see below), showed that the Double Irish existed as far back as 1991. Early U.S. academic research in 1994 into U.S. multinational use of tax havens identified
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Local subsidiaries of multinationals must always be required to file their accounts on public record, which is not the case at present. Ireland is not just a tax haven at present, it is also a corporate secrecy
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So, if you think about a lot of technology companies that are housed in Ireland and have massive operations there, they're not going to maybe need those in the same way, and those can be relocated back to the
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Nevertheless the rise in GNI is still very substantial because the additional income flows of the companies (interest and dividends) concerned are considerably smaller than the value added of their activities
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intangible assets and intangible assets purchased from "conntected parties". The control is that the intangible assets must be acceptable under GAAP (older 2004 Irish GAAP is used), and auditable by an Irish
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In December 2017, U.S technology firm ], the world's largest payment processing company, confirmed that it had abandoned its plan to execute a corporate ] to Ireland.<ref name="vantiv">{{cite web|url=
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Round Island's legal address is in the headquarters of a Dublin law firm, Matheson Ormsby Prentice, that advertises its expertise in helping multinational companies use Ireland to shelter income from taxes.
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I cannot see a justification for giving large amounts of Irish tax relief to the intragroup acquisition of a virtual group asset, except that it is for the purposes of facilitating corporate tax avoidance.
3684:(Ireland), identified as a user of the Single Malt tool in 2017 (see above), had announced in filings that it had sold a major IP asset to its parent, Microsoft (Ireland). Earlier in July 2018, Ireland's
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In 2007 to 2009, WPP, United Business Media, Henderson Group, Shire, Informa, Regus, Charter and Brit Insurance all left the UK. By 2015, WPP, UBM, Henderson Group, Informa and Brit Insurance have all
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A study by Dr Jim Stewart, associate professor in finance at Trinity College Dublin, suggests that in 2011 the subsidiaries of U.S. multinationals in Ireland paid an effective tax rate of 2.2 per cent.
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2004 was the date of the last Bush Administration tax amnesty, when pre–2004 offshore untaxed cash was repatriated at a special U.S. tax rate of 5%; in 2018, the TCJA repatriation tax rate was 15.5%.
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published an article by Jeffrey L Rubinger and Summer Lepree, showing that Irish based subsidiaries of U.S. corporations could replace the Double Irish arrangement with a new structure (now known as
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It focuses particularly on the dominant approach within the economics literature on income shifting, which dates back to Hines and Rice (1994) and which we refer to as the "Hines–Rice" approach.
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The CAIA follows the first three steps of the Double Irish, and Single Malt, basic structure (see above, except in this case the example is not a per-unit example, but for the entire sales of a
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closed the Double Irish BEPS tool to new entrants in October 2014 (existing schemes to close by 2020), but expanded the CAIA BEPS tool as a replacement in 2011–2016, and famously told an Irish
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Accounting Directive, which would require full public financial statements, until 2017, and even then retaining an exemption from financial reporting for certain holding companies until 2022
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The Irish arm of LinkedIn reported a 20 per cent rise in revenues last year and returned to the black, helped by the disposal of intellectual property assets to its parent Microsoft Ireland.
8099:(August 2018). "The Consequences of the TCJA's International Provisions: Lessons from Existing Research (RP No. 856)". University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics.
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anonymous interviews with Irish corporate tax experts. In July 2018, it was reported that Microsoft was preparing to execute Apple's "Green Jersey" CAIA BEPS transaction. In July 2018,
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In the late 1980s, Apple was among the pioneers in creating a tax structure – known as the Double Irish – that allowed the company to move profits into tax havens around the world ...
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Close to 0% for the Double Irish and Single Malt BEPS tools; 0–2.5% for the CAIA BEPS tool depending on whether the cap on capital allowances was 80% or 100% when the tool was started
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User: "Britishfinance", most likely a political organisation, attempting to manipulate the information by targeting a certain country and presenting one sided information.
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This approach by successive U.S. administrations is explained by an early insight that one of the most cited U.S. academic researchers into tax havens, and corporate taxation,
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and DUT1 is described as the "dutch slice" (sitting between IRL1 and IRL2). Thus, with the addition of IRL2 and DUT1, we have the "Double Irish dutch sandwich" tax structure.
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is small) would be realised in Germany, and German tax payable. With such IP, Microsoft can additionally charge Microsoft Germany $ 95 in IP royalty payments on each copy of
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status as one of the longest users of the Double Irish BEPS tool,<ref name="DUHIGG"/> and one of the largest users of BEPS tools worldwide.<ref name="apple"/>
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TWO YEARS AFTER the controversial 'double Irish' loophole was closed to new entrants, Google continued using the system to funnel billions in untaxed profits to Bermuda.
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code was one of the few that allowed a company be legally incorporated in its jurisdiction, but not be subject to its taxes (if managed and controlled elsewhere).
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While the ETR of the Double Irish is close to zero, the Irish State has from time-to-time capped the level of allowances under CAIA to 80%, giving an ETR of 2.5%;
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The grand architect of much of that success: Feargal O'Rourke, the scion of a political dynasty who heads the tax practice in PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Ireland
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Academics say Ireland is more accurately described as a "US corporate tax haven", and a shield for non–US profits from the historic US "worldwide" tax system.
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Examples of such tax havens include Ireland and Luxembourg in Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore in Asia, and various Caribbean island nations in the Americas
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This selective treatment allowed Apple to pay an effective corporate tax rate of 1 per cent on its European profits in 2003 down to 0.005 per cent in 2014.
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This selective treatment allowed Apple to pay an effective corporate tax rate of 1 per cent on its European profits in 2003 down to 0.005 per cent in 2014.
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By providing the inter-group finance to purchase the intangible asset (step vi. above), the tax avoided by CAIA is almost twice that of the Double Irish;
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programs that give tax relief on capital expenditure that is amortised over the life of the capital asset on which the capital was invested in.
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6007:"International Tax Advisory: Impact of the Multilateral Instrument on U.S. Taxpayers: Why Didn't the United States Choose to Sign the MLI?"
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saying they had not as yet taken any action regarding the Single Malt BEPS tool, but they were keeping the matter, "under consideration".
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While the loophole behind the Double Irish has been closed, CAIA is a more established tax concept internationally, although only for
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easily opt to use another loophole, known as the "check the box" rule, to enjoy the same tax benefits created by the Double Irish.
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from the charge to tax in Ireland. If they leave in this fashion there will be no transaction that triggers an exit tax liability.
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Additionally, BER1 gives IRL1 a $ 1 billion 10-year inter-group loan to buy the intangible asset, at an interest rate of circa 7%;
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IP onshoring is something we should be expecting to see much more of as we move towards the end of the decade. Buckle up!
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6093:"Zucman:Corporations Push Profits Into Corporate Tax Havens as Countries Struggle in Pursuit, Gabrial Zucman Study Says"
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for the purchase of assets. However, Ireland turns it into a BEPS tool by providing the allowances for the purchase of
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6885:"Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets under section 291A of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Part 9 / Chapter 2)"
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During the 10 years, CORP in line with its product cycle, has created new software and repeated step i. to iii. above;
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to Apple in 1991 and 2007 regarding this hybrid-double Irish structure, which the EU Commission considered as illegal
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Table 1: Jurisdictions Listed as Tax Havens or Financial Privacy Jurisdictions and the Sources of Those Jurisdictions
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Major companies in Ireland known to employ the capital-allowances for intangible assets ("CAIA") BEPS tool, include:
4186:(i.e. profits), by the controlling country of the company (note: a material part of the Irish figure is also from US
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labels as unfair criticism of its low, but legitimate, 12.5% Irish corporate tax rate, which it defends as being the
3581:
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reported that Google avoided corporate taxes on US$ 23 billion of profits in 2017 by using the Double Irish with the
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2005:
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for IP–heavy U.S. multinationals, has led some to qualify the new U.S. TCJA system as a hybrid–"territorial" system.
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However, in contrast, it was reported in May–July 2018, that U.S. tax academics and tax economists were discovering
3473:, announcing Apple's €13 billion fine for Irish taxes avoided from 2004–14 via an illegal "Double Irish" BEPS scheme
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5844:
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assets, and critically, where the owner of the intangible assets is a "connected party" (e.g. a Group subsidiary).
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The Double Irish enables the IP to be charged-out from Ireland, which has a large global network of full bilateral
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1722:
7814:
7011:
6840:
6290:
9678:
9281:
8336:
3825:
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3137:
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effective tax rate ("ETR") of the Double Irish is almost 0%, as the EU Commission discovered with Apple in 2016.
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1500:
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are likely to differ from those of U.S. firms and bear strong similarities to those of other G–7 and OECD firms.
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Under the CAIA rules, IRL1 can write-off the $ 1 billion paid for this group intangible asset against Irish tax;
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the closure it was known that Ireland had replacement BEPS tools, the '']'' (2014), and the '']'' (CAIA) (2009):
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the closure it was known that Ireland had replacement BEPS tools, the '']'' (2014), and the '']'' (CAIA) (2009):
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Meanwhile, the tax rate reported by those Irish subsidiaries of U.S. companies plummeted to 3% from 9% by 2010
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In October 2014, as the EU forced the Irish State to close the Double Irish BEPS tool, the influential U.S.
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Chart 1: Reproduction of the classic IMF diagram of the full "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich" BEPS tool:
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To get around this, the U.S. corporation needs to create a second Irish company (IRL2, or A), legally
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8706:"Corporate Tax 2014: Yahoo! joins "Double Irish Dutch Sandwich" club; IDA Ireland wants more members"
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Clemens Fuest; Christoph Spengel; Katharina Finke; Jost Heckemeyer; Hannah Nusser (15 October 2013).
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up within 5 years, the CAIA intangible capital allowances are repayable, which is called "clawback".
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BEPS tool; however, changes to Irish tax law in 2010 dispensed with this requirement for most users.
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5627:"Treatment of Certain Patent Royalties Paid to Companies Resident Outside the State (e-brief 55/10)"
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7312:"CRISIS RECOVERY IN A COUNTRY WITH A HIGH PRESENCE OF FOREIGN-OWNED COMPANIES: The Case of Ireland"
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almost identical to the Double Irish with often a Maltese company replaced as BER1 (from earlier).
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Jesse Drucker, Bloomberg, "Man Making Ireland Tax Avoidance Hub Proves Local Hero", 28 October 2013
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of U.S. IP, via the CAIA BEPS tool, between now and 2020, when the Double Irish is fully closed.
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of U.S. IP, via the CAIA BEPS tool, between now and 2020, when the Double Irish is fully closed.
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Seamus Coffey, "Intangibles, taxation and Ireland's contribution to the EU Budget", December 2017
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Rita Barrera; Jessica Bustamante (2 August 2017). "The Rotten Apple: Tax Avoidance in Ireland".
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gave the CAIA BEPS tool for Apple in 2015, and promised to investigate the Single Malt BEPS tool
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At the end of the 10 years, IRL1 has shielded $ 1.7 billion of Irish profits against Irish tax;
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In an October 2013 interview, the noted "grand architect" of the Double Irish BEPS tool, Irish
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to end-customers. Without such IP, if Microsoft charged a German end-customer, say $ 100, for
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5038:"What Do We Know About Base Erosion and Profit Shifting? A Review of the Empirical Literature"
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7615:"'Ireland is not a tax haven': Department of Finance dismisses 'tax haven' research findings"
7136:"Change in tax treatment of intellectual property and subsequent and reversal hard to fathom"
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5812:"Two years after the 'double Irish' was shelved, Google used it to shift billions to Bermuda"
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like BER1. However, if IRL1 sends the money to a new Dutch company DUT1 (or S), via another
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7531:"Denouncing Ireland as a tax haven is as dated as calling it homophobic because of our past"
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CORP sells it to its wholly owned Bermuda company (BER1) for $ 1 million (at cost, ideally);
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US tax academics advocated the US switch to a "territorial" tax system in the December 2017
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5375:"Fine Gael ministers discussed US corporations paying 'little or no tax' here in the 1980s"
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as higher-tax locations would not sign full tax treaties with locations like Bermuda), the
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5563:"Ireland's move to close the 'Double Irish' tax loophole unlikely to bother Apple, Google"
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CORP sells it to its wholly owned Bermuda company (BER1, or H) for $ 1 (at cost, ideally);
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7012:"Ireland as a European gateway jurisdiction for China – outbound and inbound investments"
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IRL1 uses the $ 100 from Germany to pay the $ 100 royalty to BER1 (no profit in Ireland);
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7253:"Corporations Push Profits Into Tax Havens as Countries Struggle in Pursuit, Study Says"
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State aid (SA.38373): Ireland gave illegal tax benefits to Apple worth up to €13 billion
3330:), but they are subject to conditions that will not suit all Double Irish arrangements.
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including those that had recently switched, such as Japan (2009), and the UK (2009–12).
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with James R. Hines Jr., including the second most cited academic paper on tax havens,
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the effect of the Double Irish in the Irish national accounts, leading to even greater
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A U.S. corporate (CORP) develops new software in the U.S. costing $ 1 million to build;
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8685:"TAX JUSTICE NETWORK: Irish Subsidiary Lets Microsoft Slash Taxes in U.S. and Europe"
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7904:"A Hybrid Approach: The Treatment of Foreign Profits under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act"
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6477:"'Impossible' structures: tax outcomes overlooked by the 2015 tax Spillover analysis"
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5081:"Intellectual Property Tax Planning in the light of Base Erosion and Profit Shifting"
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A U.S. corporate (CORP, or X) develops new software in the U.S. costing $ 1 to build;
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7098:"As Treasury Moves to Bring Back Inversions, Here are 7 of the Biggest Recent Deals"
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7963:"Reassessing the Beloved Double Irish Structure (as Single Malt) in Light of GILTI"
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Such profit shifting leads to a total annual revenue loss of $ 200 billion globally
6028:"Half of U.S. foreign profits booked in tax havens, especially Ireland: NBER paper"
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5700:"TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT OF 2017 Corporate Tax Reform and Wages: Theory and Evidence"
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US$ 300 billion of profits Apple books in Ireland are free of Irish tax). The CAIA
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8214:"Google, Facebook and Salesforce.com dramatically expand their Dublin office hubs"
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7209:"IRISH ECONOMY: Intangibles, taxation and Ireland's contribution to the EU Budget"
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article highlighting material issues with TCJA in terms of combatting tax havens.
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6512:"How often is the 'Single Malt' tax loophole used? The government is finding out"
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4951:"Exclusive: Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of new EU privacy law"
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for shielding non-U.S. revenues from the historical U.S. "worldwide" tax system.
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Niall O'Connor; Colm Kelpie; Laura Larkin; and Brian Hutton (11 November 2017).
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Ireland's effective tax rate on all foreign corporates (U.S. and non-U.S.) is 4%
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Explanatory video from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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Memorandum: Offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code - Part 2 (Apple Inc.)
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Study claims State shelters more multinational profits than the entire Caribbean
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Major companies in Ireland known to employ the Double Irish BEPS tool, include:
3569:(see above), said that: "the days of the Double Irish tax scheme are numbered".
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7348:"Globalisation at work in statistics — Questions arising from the 'Irish case'"
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5594:"'Dutch Sandwich' saves Google and many other U.S. companies billions in taxes"
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4988:"Google booked 41% of global revenues in Ireland in 2012; A leprechaun's gold?"
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Major companies in Ireland known to employ the single-malt BEPS tool, include:
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8645:"Medtronic's $ 43 Billion Covidien Buyout Is More Than Just A Tax Saving Deal"
7714:"Pinning Down Apple's Alleged 0.005% Tax Rate in Ireland Is Nearly Impossible"
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7178:"Revenue eBrief No. 016/18 Capital allowances for specified intangible assets"
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For CAIA plans after 13 February 2013; before 13 February 2013, it is 10 years
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Ireland as a tax haven § Global "knowledge hub" for "selling into Europe"
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Ireland as a tax haven § Global "knowledge hub" for "selling into Europe"
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8243:"Seamus Coffey: Strong Irish corporate tax receipts 'sustainable' until 2020"
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6161:"iPhone exports accounted for quarter of Irish economic growth in 2017 - IMF"
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Ireland become a hub for American tech and pharma giants operating in Europe.
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the effect of the Double Irish or Single Malt BEPS tools, and behaves like a
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BER1 licenses it to its wholly owned Irish subsidiary (IRL1, or B) for $ 100;
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8370:"How the IDA's top client used Ireland to siphon billions offshore tax-free"
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8546:"Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $ 60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes – Bloomberg"
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Chitum, Ryan (2007). "How 60 billion are lost in tax loopholes", Bloomberg.
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The most cited academic explanation of the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich, is
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Corporation tax in the Republic of Ireland § Multinational tax schemes
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are related parties). This is the essence of the Double Irish arrangement.
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8420:"Abbott Laboratories Irish subsidiary paid no tax on €1.8 billion profit"
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5613:"'Double Irish' and 'Dutch Sandwich' saved Google $ 3.7bn in tax in 2016"
5417:"Scion of a prominent political dynasty who gave his vote to accountancy"
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for U.S. corporate tax inversions in history, and would have the largest
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8083:"How U.S. tax reform rewards companies that shift profit to tax havens"
7982:"U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Corporate tax reform - Winners and Losers"
7697:"Ireland: Where Profits Pile Up, Helping Multinationals Keep Taxes Low"
7669:
6575:"Three years of silence on 'Single Malt' tax loophole raises questions"
6494:"Multinationals replacing 'Double Irish' with new tax avoidance scheme"
6413:"Multinationals replacing 'Double Irish' with new tax avoidance scheme"
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global profits shifted to tax havens are shifted by U.S. multinationals
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5170:"Ireland: Where Profits Pile Up, Helping Multinationals Keep Taxes Low"
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Intellectual property (IP) has become the leading tax avoidance vehicle
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The Double Irish and Single Malt BEPS tools enable Ireland to act as a
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in October 2017 when advocating the corporate tax cuts proposed by the
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6771:"Ireland as a Location for Your Intellectual Property Trading Company"
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5060:"Profit Shifting and "Aggressive" Tax Planning by Multinational Firms"
3280:), however, it is rare for a U.S. corporation to "own" IRL2 directly.
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Most major U.S. technology and life sciences multinationals have been
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the closure it was known that Ireland had replacement BEPS tools, the
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7517:"FactCheck: How much do multinationals actually contribute in taxes?"
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6560:"Paschal Donohoe says Government will examine 'Single Malt' loophole"
6372:"Days of 'Double Irish' tax scheme are numbered, says PwC's O'Rourke"
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6073:"Ireland is the world's biggest corporate 'tax haven', say academics"
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is between 2.2% to 4.5% (depending on assumptions made). This lower
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6234:"Senate Probe Finds Apple Used Unusual Tax Structure to Avoid Taxes"
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5455:"Feargal O'Rourke Turning Ireland Into 'A Global Tax-Avoidance Hub'"
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regime), to a full "territorial" tax system, with positive results.
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effective tax rates of US multinationals in Ireland, as well as the
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replaced Irish GDP and Irish GNP with a new economic measure, Irish
3721:" rerouting untaxed profits to places like Bermuda (e.g. it must be
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notified the then Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, he was told to "
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BER1 holds the $ 100 cash in perpetuity, thus avoiding U.S. 35% tax;
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8355:"Pinning Down Apple's Alleged 0.005% Tax Rate Is Nearly Impossible"
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7195:"Intangibles, taxation and Ireland's contribution to the EU Budget"
5985:"Treasury Official Explains Why U.S. Didn't Sign OECD Super-Treaty"
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260:] ("IFSC") the centre of US multinational tax planning in Ireland]]
253:] ("IFSC") the centre of US multinational tax planning in Ireland]]
8333:"Ireland's playing games in the last chance saloon of tax justice"
6260:"After a Tax Crackdown, Apple Found a New Shelter for Its Profits"
6147:"Quarter of Irish economic growth due to Apple's iPhone, says IMF"
6129:"Google shifted $ 23bn to tax haven Bermuda in 2017, filing shows"
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8745:"U.S. Companies Dodge $ 60 Billion in Taxes With Global Odyssey"
8664:"Irish Subsidiary Lets Microsoft Slash Taxes in U.S. and Europe"
7597:"Irish Taoiseach rebuts Oxfam claim that Ireland is a tax haven"
7345:
6947:"Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) tax diagnostic toolkit"
5655:"Withhold No More - Outbound Patent Royalties Can Be Paid Gross"
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BER1 lends the $ 100 cash back to CORP (and other subsidiaries).
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8564:"'Double Irish' limits Facebook's tax bill to €1.9m in Ireland"
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Lewis J. Greenwald; Witold Jurewicz; John Wei (23 April 2018).
7480:"An Analysis of 2015 Corporation Tax Returns and 2016 Payments"
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8611:"Google's 'Dutch Sandwich' Shielded 16 Billion Euros From Tax"
8578:"Facebook paid just €30m tax in Ireland despite earning €12bn"
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6274:"Apple's cash mountain, how it avoids tax, and the Irish link"
5868:
5728:
5238:"The real story behind U.S. companies' offshore cash reserves"
4932:"Facebook paid just €30m tax in Ireland despite earning €12bn"
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The TCJA's GILTI tax regime, which acts like an international
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One of the most contested aspects of Ireland's economy is the
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BER1 revalues it to $ 1 billion (as an intangible asset under
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By March 2017, Bloomberg would report that Ireland had become
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on transfers from an Irish company like IRL1, to companies in
7997:"Trump's U.S. tax reform a significant challenge for Ireland"
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Case Studies of transitions from "Worldwide" to "Territorial"
6916:"Ireland's Tax Regime for Investing in Intellectual Property"
6902:"Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets "Specified Assets""
6789:
5785:
Alex Barker; Vincent Boland; Vanessa Houlder (October 2014).
5261:"U.S. corporate giants hoarding more than a trillion dollars"
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Table 2: Shifted Profits: Country-by-Country Estimates (2015)
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8625:"IBM gooses its sales numbers thanks to overseas tax tricks"
8042:"'Flood of companies' to leave Ireland due to U.S. tax cuts"
7674:
7333:"Ireland's deglobalised data to calculate a smaller economy"
6636:"LinkedIn's Irish subsidiary pays $ 127m on $ 2.67bn profit"
6396:
JEFFREY L. RUBINGER; SUMMER AYERS LEPREE (23 October 2014).
5192:
4326:
4006:
8265:"The Global Con Hidden in Trump's Tax Reform Law, Revealed"
7283:
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5907:
5734:"FISCAL PARADISE: FOREIGN TAX HAVENS AND AMERICAN BUSINESS"
5437:"Controversial tax strategies brainchild of O'Rourke's son"
4970:"Google pays €47m in tax in Ireland on €22bn sales revenue"
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tax rate ("ETR"). Independent studies show that Ireland's
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3257:(i.e. IRL1). It will apply full U.S. taxes to BER1 at 35%.
7675:"APPENDIX 1 Table 2 : The Missing Profits of Nations"
6743:"World IP Day: IRELAND'S 2.5% IP Tax Rate (Section 4.1.1)"
6111:"Double Irish move 'was not enough to tax close loophole'"
4351:
original user, and known in operation since the late 1980s
8593:"US pharma giant Gilead uses 'Double Irish' tax loophole"
8440:"Abbott subsidiaries paid no tax on €2.9 billion profits"
8311:"New report: is Apple paying less than 1% tax in the EU?"
6398:"Death of the "Double Irish Dutch Sandwich"? Not so Fast"
6302:
Brussels. 30.8.2016 C(2016) 5605 final. Total Pages (130)
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is the most cited academic on tax haven research and his
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and the Maltese tax authorities will close the loophole.
5641:"Ireland Expands Withholding Tax Exemption On Royalties"
5399:"Man Making Ireland Tax Avoidance Hub Proves Local Hero"
4782:, however it is not possible to reference a copy online.
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openly marketed by the main Irish tax-law firms, in the
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to 5 years for CAIA schemes set up after February 2013.
3737:"). The CAIA uses the accepted tax concept of providing
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BER1 revalues it to $ 100 (as an intangible asset under
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6316:"Apple's Irish company structure key to EU tax finding"
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Qualifying investor alternative investment fund (QIAIF)
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By 2016, Apple was Ireland's largest company, and post
3283:
8164:
8012:"U.S. corporations could be saying goodbye to Ireland"
7037:"Irish Revenue Note for Guidance on Intangible Assets"
5787:"Brussels in crackdown on 'Double Irish' tax loophole"
5287:"Apple vs the EU is the biggest tax battle in history"
5235:
5113:"Intellectual Property Law Solutions to Tax Avoidance"
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In the 2010 Finance Act, on the recommendation of the
3617:", and for example had opted out of Article 12 of the
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IRL1 then sells it in Germany to a customer for $ 100;
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7948:"Tax Reform - Considerations for U.S. Multinationals"
7748:"Oracle paid just €11m tax on Irish turnover of €7bn"
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European Union Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base
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An illustration of the "Double Irish Dutch Sandwich"
7942:
7923:"Inversions under the New Tax Law: Carrot and Stick"
7346:
SILKE STAPEL-WEBER; JOHN VERRINDER (December 2017).
6663:"Irish Microsoft firm worth $ 100bn ahead of merger"
6587:
6533:"Ireland resists closing corporation tax 'loophole'"
6445:"Ireland's 'Single Malt' still aiding tax avoidance"
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On the same day that the closure was announced, the
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7731:"Facebook Ireland pays tax of just €30m on €12.6bn"
7231:"When can we expect the next wave of IP onshoring?"
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Bloomberg Special Reports: Corporate Tax Inversions
6613:"Corporate tax loophole closure 'won't stop firms'"
6610:
6108:
5215:"Making Sense of Profit Shifting: Edward Kleinbard"
5032:
4298:and author of the Irish State's 2016 review of the
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KPMG, "Intellectual Property Tax" (4 December 2017)
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Ireland as a tax haven § Political compromises
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8240:
7411:"Why do the Irish still owe more than the Greeks?"
5834:
5314:
4596:EU illegal State aid case against Apple in Ireland
3974:
3840:The first known user of the CAIA BEPS tool was by
3548:reversed some of the benefits ex-Finance Minister
3454:EU illegal State aid case against Apple in Ireland
2984:who alerted him to the Single Malt BEPS tool, to "
7979:
7829:"The United Kingdom's Experience with Inversions"
6745:. Mason Hayes and Curran (Law Firm). April 2013.
5183:
5181:
5179:
4302:, posted that Ireland could see a "boom" in the
4271:in a post–TCJA 26 December 2017 interview in the
4240:effective FDII rate 1–2% lower again (or 11–12%).
4207:
4113:Ireland as a tax haven § Effective tax rates
3881:(2013) U.S. corporate tax inversions in history.
3349:
3144:, cousin of the 2008–2011 Irish Finance Minister
9670:
8661:
8027:"Donald Trump singles out Ireland in tax speech"
7633:"Effective Corporate Tax in Ireland: April 2014"
7397:"Who owes more money - the Irish or the Greeks?"
5957:
3950:
3821:accounting firm, like PwC or Ernst & Young.
7864:"Japan Disproves Fears of Territorial Taxation"
7790:"The inversion experience in the US and the UK"
6846:. Industrial Development Authority (IDA). 2018.
6258:Jesse Drucker; Simon Bowers (6 November 2017).
5514:
4219:U.S. change to a territorial system (post 2017)
3800:, to review Ireland's tax regime, and included
3698:Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets (CAIA)
3654:revealed that U.S. medical device manufacturer
3345:
1738:
8480:"The Sharing Economy Doesn't Share the Wealth"
8142:
8060:"Breaking Down the New U.S. Corporate Tax Law"
8054:
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7901:
7883:"A Global Perspective on Territorial Taxation"
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7663:
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6442:
5320:"How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Global Taxes"
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4053:artificially inflated GDP-per-capita statistic
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3796:In June 2009, the Irish State established the
1226:* ], leader in academic research on tax havens
1215:* ], leader in academic research on tax havens
1204:* ], leader in academic research on tax havens
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5007:. House of the Oireachtas. 23 November 2017.
5005:"Dáil Éireann debate - Thursday, 23 Nov 2017"
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7650:"Effective Corporate Tax calculations: 2.2%"
7430:"Who still owes more, Ireland or the Greeks"
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884:=== Early implications for Ireland (2018)===
877:=== Early implications for Ireland (2018)===
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7673:; Thomas Torslov; Ludvig Wier (June 2018).
7164:"Tax break for IP transfers is cut to 80pc"
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5643:. Mason Hayes Curran Law Firm. August 2010.
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5191:; Thomas Torslov; Ludvig Wier (June 2018).
4904:several major academic papers on tax havens
4801:Most tax codes in developed countries have
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4696:
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4212:§ Concentration of U.S. multinationals
4037:OECD public debt per-capita table for 2015.
647:===Apple's "leprechaun economics" (2015)===
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8081:Michael Erman; Tom Bergin (18 June 2018).
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4160:Effect of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)
4140:effective tax rate is consistent with the
3704:Ireland as a tax haven § Green Jersey
3692:CAIA (or Green Jersey) Irish tax structure
3195:D. IRL2 pays $ 100 to BER1 (H) as royalty.
3193:C. DUT1 pays $ 100 to IRL2 (A) as royalty.
3191:B. IRL1 pays $ 100 to DUT1 (S) as royalty.
3030:Corporate haven § IP-based BEPS tools
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7166:. Department of Finance. 11 October 2017.
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4007:Effect of BEPS tools on Ireland's economy
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2443:Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
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8241:Eoin Burke-Kennedy (12 September 2017).
8170:"6 ways to fix the tax system post TCJA"
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6933:"Ireland's Intellectual Property Regime"
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5577:"Taxation Guide to Investing in Ireland"
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3791:, "MNE Tax Strategies in Ireland" (2016)
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3002:Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets
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4706:was invoked but never defined (see the
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3563:International Financial Services Centre
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2951:International Financial Services Centre
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8580:. Irish Independent. 29 November 2017.
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8508:"Low Irish taxes boost Airbnb profits"
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7843:"How to stop the inversion perversion"
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7457:The Review of Economics and Statistics
7317:. IMK Macroeconomic Policy Institute,
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7010:John Ryan; Alan Connell (March 2013).
6790:Adjunct Professor Jim Stewart (2016).
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4017:In June 2018, academic tax researcher
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3119:, wrote to the then Finance Minister,
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7815:"How Tax Reform solved UK inversions"
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7562:"The demand for tax haven operations"
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4258:Early implications for Ireland (2018)
3486:European Commissioner for Competition
3253:(or "CFC"), sheltering income from a
3101:EU levied a €13 billion fine on Apple
1082:* ] architect of Ireland's BEPS tools
772:===Microsoft's Green Jersey (2018)===
765:===Microsoft's Green Jersey (2018)===
555:===Marketing of the CAIA BEPS tool===
9190:New international division of labour
8662:Glenn R. Simpson (7 November 2005).
8591:Paul O'Donoghue (26 December 2018).
8230:. IMF. 11 June 2018. pp. 27–33.
8048:
7892:
7679:National Bureau of Economic Research
7638:. Department of Finance. April 2014.
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7485:. Revenue Commissioners. April 2017.
7472:
7452:"Multinational Firms and Tax Havens"
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6995:provision of high-quality employment
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6850:
6841:"Corporate Taxation in Ireland 2016"
6833:
6813:"Commission on Taxation report 2009"
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6611:Paul O'Donoghue (28 November 2018).
6443:Peter Hamilton (26 September 2018).
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6109:Paul O'Donoghue (31 December 2018).
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5920:National Bureau of Economic Research
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5197:National Bureau of Economic Research
5118:. UCLA Law Review. 2015. p. 4.
4735:1997 Irish Tax and Consolidated Acts
4678:
4283:material technical flaws in the TCJA
4096:25 of Ireland's 50 largest companies
3884:
3729:("CAIA") BEPS tool (also called the
3284:Elimination of Dutch sandwich (2010)
3176:5. IRL2 (A) licenses IP to DUT1 (S).
3174:4. BER1 (H) licenses IP to IRL2 (A).
3097:identified as using the Double Irish
3045:Under OECD rules, corporations with
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9689:Taxation in the Republic of Ireland
8799:Australian Broadcasting Corporation
8721:
8566:. Financial Times. 5 December 2013.
7980:Amanda Athanasiou (19 March 2018).
7750:. Irish Independent. 28 April 2014.
7733:. Irish Examiner. 29 November 2017.
7716:. Bloomberg News. 1 September 2016.
7533:. Irish Independent. 21 June 2018.
7211:. irisheconomy.ie. 19 October 2017.
7152:. Irish Revenue. 15 September 2017.
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6634:Charlie Taylor (28 November 2018).
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5960:"The OECD Initiative on Tax Havens"
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5105:
5095:"Revenue: Double Taxation Treaties"
5083:. University of Tilburg. June 2017.
5051:
4930:Adrian Weckler (29 November 2017).
4908:The demand for tax haven operations
4859:
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4748:
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4586:Taxation in the Republic of Ireland
4208:§ Controversial closure (2015)
4079:removes all BEPS tool distortion).
3893:of intellectual property), namely:
3600:
3189:A. Customer pays $ 100 to IRL1 (B).
3180:7. IRL1 sells software to customer.
3152:Basic structure (no Dutch sandwich)
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8216:. Irish Independent. 26 July 2018.
8025:Suzanne Lynch (29 November 2017).
7817:. Tax Foundation. 14 October 2014.
7519:. thejournal.ie. 9 September 2016.
7428:Fiona Reddan (12 September 2018).
7197:. Seamus Coffey. 19 December 2017.
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6558:Suzanne Lynch (14 November 2017).
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5958:James K. Jackson (11 March 2010).
5911:; Thomas Wright (September 2018).
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5515:Vanessa Houlder (9 October 2014).
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4083:Concentration of US multinationals
3951:§ Distortion of Irish GDP/GNP
3591:
3448:Apple's €13 billion EU fine (2016)
3411:, "Treasure Islands" p. 107 (2010)
3352:File:James R. Hines Jr. C-SPAN.jpg
1269:Irish corporate tax avoidance tool
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8544:Jesse Drucker (21 October 2010).
8010:Suzanne Lynch (17 January 2018).
7995:Cliff Taylor (30 November 2017).
7881:Philip Dittmer (10 August 2012).
7862:TF Editorial (13 November 2012).
7599:. Irish Times. 14 December 2016.
7180:. Irish Revenue. 2 February 2018.
5680:Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
5435:Jesse Drucker (3 November 2013).
5397:Jesse Drucker (28 October 2013).
5168:Jesse Drucker (23 October 2013).
4990:. Finfacts.ie. 30 September 2013.
4338:
3170:2. CORP (X) sells IP to BER1 (H).
3168:1. CORP (X) creates the software.
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2258:Global minimum corporate tax rate
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6904:. Irish Revenue. September 2017.
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6411:Sarah McCabe (9 November 2014).
6276:. Irish Times. 6 November 2017.
5886:10.1111/j.1475-679X.2009.00346.x
5845:Journal of Economic Perspectives
5732:; Eric M. Rice (February 1994).
5541:Rodger Royse (1 November 2013).
5373:Rónán Duffy (29 December 2018).
5285:RANA FOROOHAR (30 August 2016).
5213:Eric Cederwall (15 March 2015).
5193:"The Missing Profits of Nations"
4968:Simon Bowers (4 November 2016).
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4165:US corporate tax haven (to 2017)
4073:Irish GDP was 162% of Irish GNI*
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3178:6. DUT1 licenses IP to IRL1 (B).
3082:base erosion and profit shifting
3041:Base erosion and profit shifting
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7831:. Tax Foundation. 5 April 2016.
7767:"Who shifts profits to Ireland"
7617:. thejournal.ie. 13 June 2018.
6992:. 19 November 2012. p. 7.
6949:. PriceWaterhouseCoopers. 2016.
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6890:. Irish Revenue. February 2018.
6819:
6815:. UCD Archives. September 2009.
6792:"MNE Tax Strategies in Ireland"
6673:
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6604:
6581:
6573:Cantillion (16 November 2017).
6566:
6531:Jack Power (10 November 2017).
6504:
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6370:Colm Kelpie (30 October 2013).
6342:The International Trade Journal
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5146:. EU Commission. 30 August 2016
5087:
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4795:
4768:
3975:Microsoft's Green Jersey (2018)
3660:Department of Finance (Ireland)
3172:3. BER1 (H) revalues IP higher.
3023:
1501:Optimal capital income taxation
382:{{ordered list|type=lower-roman
8743:Drucker, Jesse (13 May 2010).
8368:Peter Bodkin (19 March 2019).
7695:Jesse Drucker (October 2013).
7681:, Working Papers. p. 31.
7310:Heike Joebges (January 2017).
7251:Richard Rubin (10 June 2018).
7096:Emily Stewart (22 July 2017).
5987:. Bloomberg BNA. 8 June 2017.
5967:Congressional Research Service
5913:"THE EXORBITANT TAX PRIVILEGE"
5873:Journal of Accounting Research
5615:. Irish Times. 2 January 2018.
5582:. A&L Goodbody. June 2016.
5495:"FISCAL MONITOR: Taxing Times"
5199:, Working Papers. p. 31.
4980:
4961:
4949:David Ingram (18 April 2018).
4942:
4923:
4601:Modified gross national income
4201:controlled foreign corporation
4063:. However, in December 2017,
4043:Modified gross national income
3997:technical issues with the TCJA
3778:0%, some have an ETR of 2.5%.
3619:2016 OECD anti-BEPS initiative
3529:
3490:illegal State aid from Ireland
3251:controlled foreign corporation
3210:includes the Dutch sandwich):
3199:F. BER1 can lend cash to CORP.
2581:List of countries by tax rates
1024:* ] Apple BEPS tool in Ireland
1:
7902:Kyle Pomerleau (3 May 2018).
7763:Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
7580:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.04.004
7413:. Irish Times. 7 March 2017.
7227:Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
6921:. FGS Partnership. June 2011.
6829:. FinFacts. 7 September 2009.
6776:. Arthur Cox Law. April 2015.
6354:10.1080/08853908.2017.1356250
6163:. Irish Times. 17 April 2018.
6075:. Irish Times. 13 June 2018.
5561:Anthony Ting (October 2014).
4917:
4296:Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
3488:concluded Apple had received
3425:Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
3197:E. BER1 accumulates the cash.
2006:Natural resources consumption
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8613:. Bloomberg. 2 January 2018.
8261:Council on Foreign Relations
8196:Council on Foreign Relations
6935:. BDO Ireland. October 2016.
6475:Mike Lewis (November 2017).
5707:Council of Economic Advisors
5501:. October 2013. p. 47.
5259:Jill Treanor (20 May 2016).
4757:In documents released under
4631:United States as a tax haven
4315:Council on Foreign Relations
4229:Council of Economic Advisors
4134:effective corporate tax rate
3855:the most popular destination
3365:Council of Economic Advisors
3346:Controversial closure (2015)
3206:
1856:United States as a tax haven
18:Browse history interactively
7:
8908:Environmental globalization
8883:Anti-globalization movement
7969:and TaxNotes International.
7567:Journal of Public Economics
7399:. Irish Times. 4 June 2015.
6969:. 10 June 2011. p. 5.
6681:"Intellectual Property Tax"
6661:Ian Guider (24 June 2018).
5629:. Irish Revenue. June 2010.
5543:"Double Irish Tax Sandwich"
5503:Figure 5.1 The Double Irish
5499:International Monetary Fund
5415:Fiona Reddan (8 May 2015).
4505:
4491:, started in 2015 with the
4223:In December 2017, the U.S.
4029:Distortion of Irish GDP/GNP
1109:* ] Irish tax-free vehicles
10:
9765:
9056:Offshore financial centres
7286:. March 2018. p. 34.
6149:. RTE News. 17 April 2018.
5517:"What is the Double Irish"
4733:Under Section 291A of the
4688:least over USD 1 trillion.
4168:
4152:, with ETRs of 0–3% (see "
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4107:Disagreement on Irish ETRs
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3268:The U.S. corporation will
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1770:Offshore financial centres
1660:Repatriation tax avoidance
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1143:* ] analysis of tax havens
1136:* ] analysis of tax havens
1042:* ] replaced Irish GDP/GNP
1035:* ] replaced Irish GDP/GNP
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5596:. MSNBC. 22 October 2010.
4180:Dominance of US companies
4069:Central Statistics Office
3709:Concept and origin (2009)
3565:("IFSC") PWC tax partner
3557:Concept and origin (2014)
3255:related party transaction
3035:Concept and origin (1991)
2235:Financial transaction tax
1325:Property tax equalization
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8898:Democratic globalization
7276:OECD Ireland Survey 2018
7233:. Economics Incentives,
6683:. KPMG. 4 December 2017.
6667:The Sunday Business Post
6400:. Taxes Without Borders.
5684:Tax Havens by Most Cited
4637:
4300:Irish corporate tax code
2976:Former Finance Minister
2586:Tax revenue to GDP ratio
2245:Currency transaction tax
1826:Liechtenstein tax affair
1127:* ] Debt-based BEPS tool
1120:* ] Debt-based BEPS tool
9694:Corporate tax avoidance
9180:Investor-state disputes
9133:Illicit financial flows
8977:Political globalization
8925:Global financial system
8148:"Tax Reform: Round One"
8064:Harvard Business Review
7771:University College Cork
7769:. Economic Incentives,
7257:The Wall Street Journal
7235:University College Cork
7076:"Tracking Tax Runaways"
5247:under current U.S. laws
4882:alternative minimum tax
4610:Irish tax-free vehicles
4576:Criticism of Apple Inc.
4274:Harvard Business Review
4184:Gross Operating Surplus
4057:Central Bank of Ireland
3875:(2012) and 6th-largest
3848:corporate tax inversion
3808:for the acquisition of
3787:Professor Jim Stewart,
3775:corporate tax inversion
3648:In September 2018, the
3586:Put on the green jersey
3544:Irish Finance Minister
2986:put on the green jersey
2293:Permanent establishment
2288:Exchange of Information
1791:Financial Secrecy Index
1442:Medical savings account
85:
9679:International taxation
9521:Christopher Chase-Dunn
9289:Primitive accumulation
8972:Military globalization
8903:Economic globalization
8888:Cultural globalization
8166:Ben Harris (economist)
8124:Cite journal requires
7797:HM Revenue and Customs
6868:. Irish Revenue. 2010.
6799:Trinity College Dublin
5939:Cite journal requires
5854:Table 1: 52 Tax Havens
5676:"IDEAS/RePEc Database"
5242:McKinsey & Company
4622:analysis of tax havens
4603:replaced Irish GDP/GNP
4191:
4071:("CSO") reported that
4038:
3993:
3798:Commission on Taxation
3794:
3789:Trinity College Dublin
3766:
3666:Partial closure (2018)
3646:
3643:, November 2017 (p. 3)
3553:
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3484:On 29 August 2016 the
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3423:, the Chairman of the
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2188:Vehicle miles traveled
1807:Ireland as a tax haven
1621:Private tax collection
1274:Ireland as a tax haven
8174:Brookings Institution
7372:"Real GDP per capita"
7319:Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
6034:. 10 September 2018.
5099:Revenue Commissioners
5042:University of Chicago
4741:through Ireland (see
4626:Panama as a tax haven
4620:Conduit and Sink OFCs
4581:Criticism of Facebook
4410:Johnson & Johnson
4375:Eli Lilly and Company
4294:, Chairperson of the
4225:Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
4178:
4036:
3982:
3826:Department of Finance
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3755:
3750:intellectual property
3641:Impossible Structures
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3611:Impossible Structures
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3369:Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
3361:1994 Hines–Rice paper
3355:
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3164:From the corporation:
3159:
3140:(and son of Minister
3047:intellectual property
3018:Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
2975:
2949:
1861:Panama as a tax haven
1813:Ireland v. Commission
1781:Conduit and sink OFCs
1776:Offshore magic circle
1697:Unreported employment
9586:Immanuel Wallerstein
9247:Capital accumulation
9113:Endangered languages
8058:(26 December 2017).
7946:LLP (9 March 2018).
7656:. 14 February 2014.
5818:. 28 November 2018.
4616:Debt-based BEPS tool
4493:leprechaun economics
4461:Microsoft (LinkedIn)
4047:Leprechaun economics
3869:(2016), 4th-largest
3863:(2015), 3rd-largest
3850:to Ireland in 2009.
3687:Sunday Business Post
3574:National Tax Journal
3479:leprechaun economics
3073:fixes this problem.
2857:United Arab Emirates
2599:Individual Countries
2308:Foreign revenue rule
2100:Inheritance (estate)
1819:Leprechaun economics
9658:Business portal
9217:Transnational crime
9123:Forced displacement
9108:Economic inequality
8982:Trade globalization
8878:Alter-globalization
8712:. 10 February 2014.
8692:Tax Justice Network
8668:Wall Street Journal
8357:. 1 September 2016.
8315:Tax Justice Network
8263:(6 February 2019).
8097:Dhammika Dharmapala
7019:Matheson (law firm)
6520:. 15 November 2017.
6500:. 14 November 2017.
5791:The Financial Times
5709:. 17 October 2017.
5659:Matheson (law firm)
5521:The Financial Times
5101:. 3 September 2018.
5034:Dhammika Dharmapala
4571:Criticism of Google
4385:Forest Laboratories
4355:Abbott Laboratories
4146:IP-based BEPS tools
2896:Business portal
2591:Tax rates in Europe
2461:Tax Justice Network
2407:Dhammika Dharmapala
1910:Airport improvement
1718:Transfer mispricing
1509:Distribution of Tax
1281:Part of a series on
123:IP block exemptions
9704:Economy of Ireland
9431:Andre Gunder Frank
9205:Race to the bottom
9195:North–South divide
8913:Global citizenship
8778:Unknown parameter
8694:. 7 November 2005.
8633:. 4 February 2014.
7699:. Bloomberg News.
7558:James R. Hines Jr.
7448:James R. Hines Jr.
6562:. The Irish Times.
6541:Global legal firm
6300:. 30 August 2016.
6207:Unknown parameter
5990:Bloomberg BNA and
5840:"Treasure Islands"
5836:James R. Hines Jr.
5730:James R. Hines Jr.
5477:Florida Tax Review
5473:"Stateless Income"
5401:. Bloomberg News.
4902:Desai had written
4763:Tax Strategy Group
4562:Netherlands portal
4309:In February 2019,
4192:
4182:: Irish corporate
4154:effective tax rate
4039:
3834:Tax Strategy Group
3830:Tax Strategy Group
3806:capital allowances
3739:capital allowances
3554:
3524:", 30 August 2016.
3518:Margrethe Vestager
3475:
3471:Margrethe Vestager
3464:
3419:In December 2018,
3409:James R. Hines Jr.
3392:James R. Hines Jr.
3373:
3357:James R. Hines Jr.
3278:Bermuda black hole
3201:
3086:IP–based BEPS tool
2990:
2955:
2497:Eight per thousand
2412:James R. Hines Jr.
2303:European Union FTT
1320:Government revenue
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9491:K. Anthony Appiah
9486:Daniele Archibugi
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9024:COVID-19 pandemic
8930:Global governance
8784:|url-status=
8550:www.bloomberg.com
7560:(February 2006).
7556:; C Fritz Foley;
7293:978-92-64-29177-5
6417:Irish Independent
6262:. New York Times.
6213:|url-status=
6135:. 3 January 2019.
6011:Alston & Bird
5441:Irish Independent
4936:Irish Independent
4803:capital allowance
4501:, started in 2009
4467:Allergan (Zeitiq)
3872:Eaton Corporation
3846:, the first U.S.
3814:intangible assets
3810:intangible assets
3747:, and especially
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7081:
7077:
7071:
7069:
7067:
7059:
7049:
7047:
7038:
7032:
7025:
7020:
7013:
7006:
7004:
6996:
6988:
6982:
6980:
6972:
6965:
6959:
6957:
6948:
6942:
6934:
6928:
6917:
6911:
6903:
6897:
6886:
6880:
6878:
6876:
6864:
6858:
6856:
6854:
6842:
6836:
6828:
6822:
6814:
6808:
6800:
6793:
6786:
6784:
6772:
6766:
6764:
6762:
6760:
6758:
6756:
6748:
6744:
6738:
6736:
6734:
6726:
6716:
6714:
6712:
6710:
6708:
6700:
6690:
6682:
6676:
6668:
6664:
6657:
6655:
6653:
6645:
6641:
6637:
6630:
6623:
6618:
6614:
6607:
6600:
6595:
6591:
6584:
6576:
6569:
6561:
6554:
6547:
6544:
6538:
6534:
6527:
6519:
6518:
6517:TheJournal.ie
6513:
6507:
6499:
6495:
6489:
6478:
6471:
6469:
6467:
6465:
6463:
6455:
6450:
6446:
6439:
6437:
6435:
6433:
6431:
6423:
6418:
6414:
6407:
6399:
6392:
6390:
6382:
6377:
6373:
6366:
6364:
6355:
6351:
6347:
6343:
6336:
6321:
6317:
6310:
6303:
6299:
6298:EU Commission
6292:
6286:
6279:
6275:
6269:
6261:
6254:
6252:
6235:
6229:
6227:
6218:
6201:
6183:
6179:
6178:
6170:
6162:
6156:
6148:
6142:
6134:
6130:
6124:
6116:
6112:
6105:
6098:
6094:
6088:
6086:
6078:
6074:
6068:
6066:
6057:
6044:
6037:
6033:
6029:
6023:
6021:
6012:
6008:
6002:
5995:
5994:in Washington
5993:
5986:
5980:
5973:
5969:. p. 7.
5968:
5961:
5954:
5946:
5933:
5926:
5921:
5914:
5910:
5904:
5902:
5900:
5892:
5887:
5883:
5879:
5875:
5874:
5865:
5863:
5855:
5851:
5847:
5846:
5841:
5837:
5831:
5829:
5821:
5817:
5816:TheJournal.ie
5813:
5807:
5805:
5797:
5792:
5788:
5781:
5779:
5771:
5764:
5758:
5751:
5746:
5742:
5735:
5731:
5725:
5723:
5721:
5713:
5708:
5701:
5695:
5693:
5685:
5681:
5677:
5671:
5669:
5660:
5656:
5650:
5642:
5636:
5628:
5622:
5614:
5608:
5606:
5604:
5595:
5589:
5578:
5572:
5564:
5557:
5555:
5553:
5544:
5537:
5535:
5533:
5531:
5522:
5518:
5511:
5504:
5500:
5496:
5490:
5483:(9): 699–744.
5482:
5478:
5474:
5470:
5464:
5456:
5450:
5442:
5438:
5431:
5429:
5427:
5418:
5411:
5404:
5400:
5393:
5391:
5389:
5380:
5379:TheJournal.ie
5376:
5369:
5367:
5358:
5345:
5338:
5327:
5326:
5321:
5317:
5311:
5309:
5307:
5305:
5297:
5292:
5291:Time Magazine
5288:
5281:
5279:
5271:
5266:
5262:
5255:
5248:
5243:
5239:
5232:
5225:
5220:
5216:
5209:
5202:
5198:
5194:
5190:
5184:
5182:
5180:
5171:
5164:
5157:
5145:
5141:
5135:
5133:
5131:
5129:
5121:
5114:
5108:
5100:
5096:
5090:
5082:
5076:
5068:
5061:
5054:
5047:
5044:. p. 1.
5043:
5039:
5035:
5029:
5027:
5025:
5023:
5021:
5013:
5011:
5006:
5000:
4998:
4989:
4983:
4975:
4971:
4964:
4956:
4952:
4945:
4937:
4933:
4926:
4922:
4909:
4905:
4899:
4890:
4883:
4877:
4875:
4867:
4857:
4855:
4845:
4835:
4833:
4831:
4820:
4811:
4804:
4798:
4788:
4781:
4777:
4771:
4764:
4760:
4754:
4752:
4744:
4740:
4736:
4730:
4728:
4726:
4716:
4709:
4699:
4697:
4695:
4684:
4682:
4672:
4670:
4661:
4656:
4650:
4648:
4643:
4632:
4629:
4627:
4624:
4621:
4618:
4615:
4612:
4609:
4605:
4602:
4599:
4597:
4594:
4592:
4589:
4587:
4584:
4582:
4579:
4577:
4574:
4572:
4569:
4568:
4563:
4552:
4549:
4538:
4535:
4524:
4521:
4515:
4510:
4500:
4497:
4494:
4490:
4487:
4486:
4485:
4475:, using Malta
4474:
4471:
4469:, using Malta
4468:
4465:
4463:, using Malta
4462:
4459:
4458:
4457:
4446:
4443:
4441:
4438:
4436:
4433:
4431:
4428:
4426:
4423:
4421:
4418:
4416:
4413:
4411:
4408:
4406:
4403:
4401:
4398:
4396:
4393:
4391:
4388:
4386:
4383:
4381:
4378:
4376:
4373:
4371:
4368:
4366:
4363:
4361:
4360:Adobe Systems
4358:
4356:
4353:
4350:
4347:
4346:
4344:
4336:
4334:
4324:
4322:
4321:
4316:
4312:
4307:
4305:
4301:
4297:
4293:
4292:Seamus Coffey
4287:
4284:
4279:
4276:
4275:
4270:
4266:
4265:Stephen Moore
4255:
4253:
4242:
4238:
4237:
4235:
4232:
4230:
4226:
4216:
4213:
4209:
4204:
4202:
4198:
4189:
4185:
4181:
4177:
4172:
4157:
4155:
4151:
4147:
4143:
4139:
4135:
4132:
4128:
4124:
4120:
4114:
4104:
4101:
4097:
4090:
4080:
4078:
4074:
4070:
4066:
4062:
4061:Modified GNI*
4058:
4054:
4048:
4044:
4035:
4026:
4024:
4020:
4014:
4004:
4002:
3998:
3986:
3981:
3972:
3965:
3961:
3958:
3955:
3952:
3948:
3944:
3943:
3942:
3934:
3931:
3928:
3925:
3922:
3919:
3916:
3913:
3910:
3907:
3903:
3900:
3897:
3896:
3894:
3892:
3882:
3880:
3879:
3874:
3873:
3868:
3867:
3862:
3861:
3856:
3851:
3849:
3845:
3844:
3838:
3835:
3831:
3827:
3822:
3820:
3815:
3811:
3807:
3803:
3799:
3790:
3783:
3779:
3776:
3772:
3759:
3754:
3752:
3751:
3746:
3745:
3740:
3736:
3732:
3728:
3724:
3720:
3716:
3705:
3695:
3693:
3689:
3688:
3683:
3679:
3678:
3672:
3663:
3661:
3657:
3653:
3652:
3642:
3638:
3637:Christian Aid
3632:
3627:
3625:
3620:
3616:
3612:
3608:
3607:Christian Aid
3598:
3589:
3587:
3583:
3579:
3575:
3570:
3568:
3564:
3551:
3547:
3542:
3537:
3523:
3519:
3513:
3509:
3507:
3503:
3499:
3493:
3491:
3487:
3482:
3480:
3472:
3468:
3460:
3455:
3445:
3443:
3439:
3438:
3432:
3431:
3426:
3422:
3421:Seamus Coffey
3417:
3410:
3404:
3399:
3397:
3396:check-the-box
3393:
3388:
3385:
3378:
3370:
3366:
3362:
3358:
3354:
3336:
3331:
3329:
3325:
3321:
3318:tax partner,
3317:
3312:
3310:
3305:
3301:
3297:
3291:
3281:
3279:
3274:
3271:
3266:
3263:
3258:
3256:
3252:
3248:
3239:
3236:
3233:
3230:
3227:
3224:
3220:
3217:
3214:
3213:
3211:
3209:
3208:
3185:
3165:
3158:
3149:
3147:
3143:
3142:Mary O'Rourke
3139:
3135:
3131:
3127:
3122:
3118:
3114:
3110:
3104:
3102:
3098:
3093:
3089:
3087:
3083:
3079:
3074:
3072:
3068:
3064:
3060:
3056:
3052:
3048:
3042:
3031:
3021:
3019:
3014:
3012:
3006:
3004:
3003:
2998:
2997:
2987:
2983:
2979:
2974:
2970:
2968:
2964:
2960:
2952:
2948:
2937:
2932:
2930:
2925:
2923:
2918:
2917:
2915:
2914:
2909:
2899:
2897:
2892:
2887:
2886:
2885:
2884:
2873:
2870:
2868:
2867:United States
2865:
2863:
2860:
2858:
2855:
2853:
2850:
2848:
2845:
2843:
2840:
2838:
2835:
2833:
2830:
2828:
2825:
2823:
2820:
2818:
2815:
2813:
2810:
2808:
2805:
2803:
2800:
2798:
2795:
2793:
2790:
2788:
2785:
2783:
2780:
2778:
2775:
2773:
2770:
2768:
2765:
2763:
2760:
2758:
2755:
2753:
2750:
2748:
2745:
2743:
2740:
2738:
2735:
2733:
2730:
2728:
2725:
2723:
2720:
2718:
2715:
2713:
2710:
2708:
2705:
2703:
2700:
2698:
2695:
2693:
2690:
2688:
2685:
2683:
2680:
2678:
2675:
2673:
2670:
2668:
2665:
2663:
2660:
2658:
2655:
2653:
2650:
2648:
2645:
2643:
2640:
2638:
2635:
2633:
2630:
2628:
2625:
2623:
2620:
2618:
2615:
2613:
2610:
2608:
2605:
2604:
2603:
2602:
2598:
2597:
2592:
2589:
2587:
2584:
2582:
2579:
2578:
2577:
2576:
2573:All Countries
2572:
2571:
2566:
2561:
2560:
2553:
2550:
2548:
2545:
2543:
2540:
2538:
2535:
2533:
2530:
2528:
2527:Tolerance tax
2525:
2523:
2520:
2518:
2515:
2513:
2510:
2508:
2505:
2503:
2500:
2498:
2495:
2493:
2490:
2489:
2486:
2481:
2480:
2468:
2465:
2462:
2459:
2456:
2453:
2450:
2447:
2444:
2441:
2440:
2439:
2438:
2434:
2433:
2428:
2425:
2423:
2420:
2418:
2415:
2413:
2410:
2408:
2405:
2403:
2400:
2399:
2398:
2397:
2393:
2392:
2384:
2383:
2376:
2373:
2371:
2368:
2366:
2363:
2361:
2358:
2356:
2353:
2349:
2346:
2344:
2341:
2340:
2339:
2336:
2334:
2331:
2329:
2326:
2325:
2322:
2317:
2316:
2309:
2306:
2304:
2301:
2299:
2296:
2294:
2291:
2289:
2286:
2284:
2281:
2279:
2276:
2274:
2271:
2269:
2266:
2264:
2261:
2259:
2256:
2253:
2248:
2246:
2243:
2241:
2238:
2236:
2233:
2232:
2229:
2228:International
2224:
2223:
2216:
2213:
2211:
2208:
2206:
2203:
2201:
2198:
2196:
2193:
2189:
2186:
2184:
2181:
2179:
2175:
2172:
2170:
2167:
2165:
2162:
2161:
2160:
2156:
2153:
2151:
2148:
2146:
2143:
2141:
2138:
2136:
2133:
2131:
2130:Resource rent
2128:
2126:
2123:
2121:
2118:
2116:
2113:
2111:
2108:
2106:
2103:
2101:
2098:
2096:
2093:
2091:
2088:
2086:
2083:
2081:
2078:
2076:
2073:
2071:
2068:
2064:
2061:
2059:
2056:
2054:
2051:
2049:
2046:
2044:
2041:
2039:
2036:
2034:
2031:
2030:
2029:
2026:
2022:
2019:
2017:
2014:
2012:
2009:
2007:
2004:
2002:
1999:
1997:
1994:
1992:
1989:
1988:
1987:
1984:
1982:
1979:
1975:
1972:
1970:
1967:
1965:
1962:
1960:
1957:
1955:
1952:
1950:
1947:
1945:
1942:
1941:
1940:
1937:
1933:
1930:
1929:
1928:
1927:Capital gains
1925:
1921:
1918:
1916:
1913:
1911:
1908:
1907:
1906:
1903:
1901:
1898:
1896:
1893:
1891:
1888:
1886:
1883:
1882:
1879:
1874:
1873:
1862:
1859:
1857:
1854:
1852:
1849:
1847:
1846:Panama Papers
1844:
1842:
1839:
1837:
1834:
1832:
1829:
1827:
1824:
1820:
1817:
1815:
1814:
1810:
1809:
1808:
1805:
1804:
1803:
1802:
1798:
1797:
1792:
1789:
1787:
1784:
1782:
1779:
1777:
1774:
1771:
1768:
1766:
1763:
1761:
1758:
1757:
1756:
1755:
1751:
1750:
1745:
1742:
1740:
1737:
1735:
1732:
1730:
1727:
1724:
1721:
1719:
1716:
1714:
1713:Tax inversion
1711:
1710:
1709:
1708:
1704:
1703:
1698:
1695:
1693:
1690:
1688:
1685:
1683:
1680:
1678:
1675:
1673:
1670:
1668:
1665:
1661:
1658:
1657:
1656:
1655:Tax avoidance
1653:
1652:
1651:
1650:
1646:
1645:
1640:
1639:Noncompliance
1635:
1634:
1627:
1624:
1622:
1619:
1617:
1616:Tax collector
1614:
1612:
1609:
1607:
1604:
1602:
1599:
1597:
1596:Tax residence
1594:
1592:
1589:
1587:
1584:
1582:
1579:
1577:
1574:
1572:
1569:
1567:
1566:Revenue stamp
1564:
1562:
1559:
1558:
1555:
1550:
1549:
1538:
1535:
1533:
1530:
1528:
1525:
1523:
1520:
1518:
1515:
1514:
1513:
1512:
1508:
1507:
1502:
1499:
1497:
1494:
1492:
1489:
1487:
1484:
1482:
1481:Tax incidence
1479:
1477:
1476:Excess burden
1474:
1472:
1469:
1468:
1467:
1466:
1462:
1461:
1456:
1451:
1450:
1443:
1440:
1438:
1435:
1433:
1430:
1428:
1425:
1423:
1420:
1418:
1415:
1413:
1410:
1408:
1405:
1403:
1402:Tax incentive
1400:
1398:
1397:Tax advantage
1395:
1393:
1390:
1388:
1385:
1383:
1380:
1378:
1375:
1373:
1370:
1368:
1365:
1363:
1360:
1358:
1357:Tax threshold
1355:
1351:
1348:
1347:
1346:
1343:
1341:
1338:
1336:
1333:
1331:
1328:
1326:
1323:
1321:
1318:
1317:
1314:
1309:
1308:
1305:
1304:fiscal policy
1302:An aspect of
1301:
1300:
1296:
1292:
1291:
1288:
1285:
1284:
1280:
1279:
1275:
1267:
1262:
1256:
1254:
1251:
1249:
1248:
1242:
1240:
1235:
1233:
1232:
1224:
1221:
1213:
1210:
1202:
1199:
1195:
1190:
1184:
1182:
1177:
1175:
1174:
1168:
1166:
1161:
1159:
1158:
1150:
1147:
1141:
1139:
1134:
1132:
1131:
1125:
1123:
1118:
1116:
1115:
1108:
1105:
1103:
1100:
1099:
1091:
1088:
1080:
1077:
1069:
1066:
1057:
1054:
1052:
1049:
1046:
1040:
1038:
1033:
1031:
1030:
1022:
1019:
1011:
1008:
1000:
997:
991:
989:
984:
982:
981:
975:
973:
968:
966:
965:
957:
950:
948:
942:
940:
939:
935:
933:
930:
928:
927:
918:
915:
909:
906:
899:
897:
891:
889:
888:
882:
880:
875:
873:
872:
864:
857:
855:
849:
847:
846:
842:
840:
837:
835:
834:
827:
815:
812:
808:
806:
803:
801:
800:
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