Comments on: Why Rutte is good for Italy https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/why-rutte-is-good-for-italy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-rutte-is-good-for-italy Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Sun, 23 Jan 2022 13:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Francesco https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/why-rutte-is-good-for-italy/#comment-14590 Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:31:09 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article-why-rutte-is-good-for-italy/#comment-14590 tax haven status
The author writes: «Netherlands is [being accused of being] guilty of using fiscal dumping and being a tax haven. Needless to say that both claims are false.»

Moscovici (2018): "Some European countries are black holes (…) I want to address this,"

The Economist (2015): "The Netherlands, and other low-tax havens such as Ireland and Luxembourg, have attracted much criticism from other countries for the legal loopholes they leave open to encourage such tax avoidance by big corporations."

And «1MNE Tax Strategies and Ireland»: «Ireland […] together with Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland have been described as the four OECD tax havens.»

Saying they are not fiscal dumpers because they do not end in a very specific list on which they have political influence is disingenuous.

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