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.. thus removing a significant portion of income from these so-called tax havens, which generally tend to be poorer countries. No one has accused Germany of being a tax haven, for instance.



This list disagrees with "poorer countries": https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/tax-haven...

   1 British Virgin Islands
   2 Cayman Islands
   3 Bermuda
   4 Netherlands
   5 Switzerland
   6 Luxembourg
   7 Hong Kong
   8 Jersey
   9 Singapore
  10 United Arab Emirates


> so-called tax havens, which generally tend to be poorer countries

Smaller, not poorer.

Unless you think that current or historical "tax havens" like Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland etc. were/are poorer than Germany.

If you have less than a handful of million people even getting a few percent + several thousands of jobs from corporations like Apple is a huge deal. It would be a drop in the bucket for Germany so they have no incentives to make such deals.




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