They paid taxes but they were in Ireland likely.  This is something you agreed to as legal when the UK signed one of the EU treaties.<p>If you disagree with that (and I totally understand why you would), that is the root cause, and that is the treaty (aka law) that needs to be revoked.<p>Alternatively, the UK could choose to have a lower tax rate than Ireland, in which case all of the EU tax bills would flow there instead of Ireland for multinationals.  That said, you can see how that would end up being a race for the bottom.<p>Its not completely that simple but it&#x27;s pretty much that simple.