MEP: European Commission turned blind eye to Irish tax deals for years

The European Commission has turned a blind eye to secretive tax deals that Ireland and other countries have been doing with multinationals for decades.

Only after complaints from the US did it launch investigations into the most high-profile cases — Apple in Ireland, Starbucks in the Netherlands, and Amazon in Luxembourg.

Then, following the Lux Leaks revelations that dragged commission president Jean-Claude Juncker into the scandal, it promised to introduce new laws on such tax deals.