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RE: Apple forced to pay $16 Billion in back taxes to Ireland
That's the brexit discussion. If you leave the EU and the common market, then you can make this decision. As long as you are a member, you can't.
You enjoy the upside of being member of 1 market with 100's of millions of potential customers so you have to take the responsibilities that come with that.
And be realistic, if you see the amount of money mentioned in this case, you have to realize it's bigger then just Ireland. Or you have to have apple stores on every street corner and even then...
We never agreed that as part of common market. We had referendums including on entry to common market. Over and over we were told that common market did not mean common tax policy, and that we'd have a veto in the council on any attempt to bring common tax policy in. The people of Ireland are sovereign in Ireland; it's not acceptable to tell us we must abide by something we did not agree to or we must leave. Tax policy has long been a national issue and this is an attempt at harmonisation.