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Ireland issues travel warning for the US.
https://www.newsweek.com/ireland-issues-travel-warning-us-2050890
@aral
Maybe they should stop hosting our companies tax free?
@jrefior That would require MeHole to grow a spine.
@tootbrute @jrefior That was shut down by the EU but they still bend over backwards for them. https://ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-people/
@aral @jrefior i'm reading that book now. i thought i couldn't hate Facebook anymore than i could, i was wrong.
that double irish shit is pretty sickening. if companies paid taxes, we could have nice things like health care and public transit. ahhhhhhhh.
the same bits that pissed you off piss me off too. i live in taiwan - don't use fb. trading HK data for fb to be allowed in china? jfc.
@aral @tootbrute @jrefior The EU has no jurisdiction over Irish tax law. (Try reading the Treaty of Lisbon)
It does over competition in the single market. There's no evidence of tax diversion within the EU.
https://twitter.com/danobrien20/status/1119895817324761088?t=E4Z2ifh1MJCjOFS5TPUCHA&s=09
@samueljohnson @tootbrute @jrefior Did anyone say they did? I said they shut down the Double Irish. Which they did.
“Despite US knowledge of the Double Irish for a decade, it was the European Commission that in October 2014 forced Ireland to close the scheme, starting in January 2015.”
@aral @tootbrute @jrefior Hyperbolic language (on Wikipedia, shocking I know). In the absence of jurisdiction the question of "force", legal or otherwise, doesn't apply. The interpretation of competition rules applies to all member states, of course, and can be leveraged to influence non-members as the UK has discovered.
The Commission cannot "force" Ireland to do anything any more than it could the UK. The ECJ, not the Commission, could, and did, compel *Apple* to pay more tax.