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Make 'em pay: Can Europe agree on a common corporate tax?

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Now it's Amazon and Apple in the crosshairs of Brussels. The European Competition Commissioner playing tax collector, ordering Amazon to pay some 250 million euros to Luxembourg. Now the question, will the Luxembourgers take collection? We ask because in the same breath, the Commission's announced it's taking Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to recover up to 13 billion euros of tax from Apple.

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