It matters who is not in. Cyprus doesn’t seem to be on the list, along with many others. All it takes is one country to make this irrelevant.
"Paying" £1,000,000 for intellectual property in the virgin islands? There's a 12.5% tax on that, not VAT, so no, you can't offset it, thanks!
Ireland is not joining this agreement for no reason, they're doing it because non-membership will hurt them more in the end.