Suggesting that any leakage of tax revenues flowing from the complex corporate structures of digital groups is merely coincidental, the Digital Economy Group says: "Enterprises that employ digital communications models do not organise their business operations differently as a legal or tax matter."

Hell of a coincidence, mate. They're incorporated in Ireland purely by accident, they would never threaten to leave at the slightest mention of "corporate tax increase", and what they really wanted to do all along was to move to the Scandinavian countries. They should all band together and get a stand-up comedy act going.