
Originally Posted by
Rjk
The EU identified that Apple weren't paying enough tax in Ireland and made them repay it, something which wasn't being pursued by the Irish government itself. On numerous times it has attempted to bring in laws clamping down on multinationals ability to export profits to low tax countries, but has been vetoed at every turn by, yes you guessed it, the UK.
In the meantime the UK has slashed corporation tax and actually purposefully made it easier to export profits in an attempt to be a patsy to the multinationals. After brexit this is only going to get worse.