Ireland is the most innocent of all tax havens. Compare it to tax havens that are under British rule. Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Gibraltar, Jersey, Isle of Man... Pretty much everywhere that is related to the UK including its old colonies like Malta.Speaks for itself that the highest growth is for ireland and malta, a taxhaven and tax frauder nation.
And yet they still cant outdo the "socialist communist hellhole" called China
I don't know anything if tax evasion wasn't a motivation behind convoluted statuses like British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. They even had a report about opportunities these places had as "offshore financial centers":
In November 2009, Michael Foot, a former Bank of England official and Bahamas bank inspector, delivered an integrated report on the three British Crown Dependencies (Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey), and the six Overseas Territories (Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Turks and Caicos Islands), "to identify the opportunities and challenges as offshore financial centres", for the HM Treasury
I guess they liked the said opportunities which prompted them to make the UK itself a tax haven for Americans:
Since the reform of its corporate tax code in 2009–2012, the UK has re-emerged as a major corporate-focused tax haven
