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Can't help notice that three of the four are tiny countries. And the fourth, Ireland, is not that big either.

I'm starting to thing that there might also be a geopolitic reason to become a tax heaven, not just an economic one, something along the line "Let's convince Amazon to book profits here, and there let's see who will dare mess with us, given that Amazon will be protected by USA"

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For a small nation, it's one of the few outsized competitive advantages they can try to offer (that is, something they can do that can benefit them far beyond the scale of their population).

Ireland's corporate tax rate + joining the European single market, resulted in one of the greatest booms in modern economic history. From $40 to $280 billion in GDP in just 17 years.

Given the extreme nature of the benefits, a small nation is probably crazy not to do it.

Is that inflation adjusted?

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