The EU's clampdown on corporate tax avoidance will intensify today, as the European Commission prepares to unveil a set of proposals in Brussels.

Among the measures will be a plan to stop companies already in the EU from shifting their profits to lower-tax countries in Europe.

Ireland has been in the spotlight over our tax deal with tech giant Apple - the Commission is already investigating that arrangement.

But Peter Vale, a tax expert with Grant Thornton, says the proposals being announced today do not pose any danger to Ireland: