The European Parliament delegation including five MEPs sitting on the taxation subcommittee came to Ireland this week to find out more about “the role that Ireland plays in tax avoidance … and how it can be changed,” according to its chair Paul Tang. Their 24-hour marathon series of meetings with state officials, experts, lobby groups, executives at Apple, Microsoft, Google and Meta, as well as The Currency, comes at a time when the European directive due to implement the minimum 15 per cent tax rate agreed at OECD-sponsored international talks last year remains stuck in a broader conflict between Brussels…

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