At a hearing held in the European Parliament on 28 November 2018, Google’s Head of Economic Policy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Adam Cohen, confirmed that Google is continuing to use the Double Irish structure through an Irish-registered subsidiary, Google Ireland Holdings, in Bermuda. The...
The TAX3 draft report prepared by the EPP and S&D co-rapporteurs was discussed among MEPs last Tuesday 27 November in the European Parliament. GUE/NGL's shadow rapporteur in the TAX3 Special Committee, Miguel Urban Crespo (Podemos) was quite critical about it (watch his intervention here). Given that...
GUE/NGL in the European Parliament has published the latest in its series of studies examining EU taxation, and specifically, the potential for tax dodging and other illicit financial flows within a future EU-Mercosur free trade agreement. The study, Merco-Scam: How the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement...
During the visit of TAX3 MEPs to the Isle of Man on November 22-23, Irish GUE/NGL MEP Matt Carthy raised the issue of LinkedIn's Irish-registered Isle of Man subsidiary, part of a Double Irish tax avoidance structure. LinkedIn was purchased by Microsoft in 2016. The...
Following the revelations of a widespread VAT avoidance scheme in the Isle of Man in the Paradise Papers leak of documents from the Appleby law firm, the European Parliament's TAX3 special committee on financial crimes, tax evasion and tax avoidance organised a fact-finding mission to...