Ive noticed that there seems to be more and more articles on this topic with every passing month. I read an article that Microsoft saved $500 million in tax by using its irish offices and operations. These sort of headlines seem to be drawing more and more international attention and intense pressure from europe to raise. Maybe in the long run it may have been a mistake to have such a low corporate tax rate for this precise reason. Maybe an 18 or 20% rate would have been more appropriate as it would still have been low but not low enough to attract this growing international attention. As ireland becomes richer it is going to become harder and harder to justify