07-26-2017, 08:01 PM
(07-26-2017, 07:22 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Ireland and Switzerland are 3rd world countries with a dictator? News to me. They both have very low corporate tax rates compared to other advanced nations.
Remind me what just happened with Ireland and Apple cutting a lower tax deal.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/technology/apple-tax-eu-ireland.html
Lower tax rates don't always keep a company in place. I just left a job working at HP a few months ago and they were in the process of shutting down their Ireland plant and moving all R&D and manufacturing they did there back to the U.S. (Oregon).
There are lots of reasons besides the tax rate to do business somewhere. Is a company going to move to a country that offers them low or no taxes, but there's no infrastructure or skilled workforce?
