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Ireland as a tax haven for multinationals

Geoff Riley

10th September 2018

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US firms book more profits in Ireland than in China, Japan, Germany, France & Mexico combined according to a new paper on the tax havens and multinational activity published by Gabriel Zucman, Assistant professor at UC Berkeley. The working paper can be found here. Students covering multinational corporations and the vexed issue of tax avoidance might be very interested in the chart in the accompanying tweet shown below.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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