Allegedly.

That aside: Ireland has a lower corporate tax rate than say france, so for example a soap company based in ireland doing business in france pays the irish corporate tax rate, it's not illegal and they're not part of the "mafia", now the EU is saying that soap companies will have to pay 3% tax on soap sold in france (in addition to VAT) further still they have no problem with non soap companies and that it's a coincidence that most soap companies affected come from the same country.