One other benefit that Ireland offers than just a low tax rate is more 'pliable' business laws, in that say you are an American company trying to set up a subsi

One other benefit that Ireland offers than just a low tax rate is more 'pliable' business laws, in that say you are an American company trying to set up a subsidiary in the Euro zone. You can read up in length on either French, Germany or Italian corporate law to best figure out how to do business there, or 'simply' set up in Ireland where laws on purpose have been made to emulate american corporate structures, positions, titles, etc, and yet benefit from free trade and pan-european laws and standards provided by the EU.