Originally Posted by NewNick

Correct, and the google tax as it became known was created in response to the practices that I described.

Before the google tax it was open season. Google got caught and there was demands for a response from Government.

However the cash mountains that Trump allowed to be brought into the US were built in the years up to 2015.

And this is just the UK. Multinationals, especially those in tech whose product is non-tangible, behave in this way all over the globe.