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oversimplified you can think of it as

Ireland is required to collect the taxes it always should have collected

(but waved to get a competitive advantage for attracting tech giants and giving them in turn a competitive advantage over EU based competition)

as a side note tax benefits to attract companies aren't perse illegal but what Ireland did went far beyond what is healthy/acceptable for the EU




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