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...
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...
The ECON and FEM committees adopted yesterday the Report on gender equality and taxation policies in the EU (A8-0416_2018_EN) to which GUE/NGL MEP Marisa Matias (Bloco de Esquerda) was a co-rapporteur together with the Greens MEP, Ernest Urtasun....