Or this is a establishment politician with a weak hold on power who has not necessarily got his facts right, or if he's talking about absolute numbers vs. rates is probably lying through his teeth, but knows bashing foreign companies is a crowd pleaser.
And maybe they overtax those sausage stalls, lots of/most every? country has tax regimes with lots of insanity. Apple wouldn't be playing the games it plays with the US if we didn't have the 2nd highest or so corporate tax rate in the world (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates when you factor in state tax rates only Cameroon is perhaps higher).
While I was doing the search for that, I noted that as a region Europe has the lowest, but that's no doubt not accounting for VATs, which the US is allergic to, at least unless one of the big other categories of taxes is totally killed off (like, with a "this time we mean it" Constitutional amendment).
Anyway, my point is that all this results in all sorts of distortions. For example, when the Reagan individual tax rate cuts kicked in, I noticed my parent's business and investing strategies change as tax avoidance became much less important. In his working lifetime, the top rates went from 91% ("We Like Ike???") to 70% (which as I recall was split between 50% or more for "earned" and 70% or more for "unearned" (investment) income), to 38.5%, to 28%, before it started going up again (even the George W Bush tax rate cuts only dropped them 4.6% to 35%).
And going back to the distortions, the family exemptions allowed a normal family prior to JFK's 1964 supply side rate cuts to survive with the lowest bracket being 20%; those weren't adjusted for inflation until Reagan's reforms, which turned them into a pretty minor thing with how inflation savaged the dollar during that long period (the CPI peaked at like 13-14% around the time Reagan entered the Oval Office).