Ireland changed its tax law which is why Google is ending it's use of the Double Irish. It's not just Google of course. Apple apparently started it. Here's a

Ireland changed its tax law which is why Google is ending it's use of the Double Irish. It's not just Google of course. Apple apparently started it. Here's a list of other giant companies using the exact same loop hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Multinationals_that_used_Irish_BEPS_tools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Multi... Double Irish Major companies in Ireland known to employ the Double Irish BEPS tool, include: Apple Inc. original user, and known in operation since the late 1980s[19][54][55][171] Abbott Laboratories[172][173][174] Adobe Systems[175] Airbnb[176][177] Apple Inc.[19] Eli Lilly and Company[175] Facebook[138][178][179][180] Forest Laboratories[175] General Electric[178] Gilead[181] Google[32][39][178][182] IBM[183] Johnson & Johnson[178] Medtronic Inc.[184] Microsoft[175][185][186] News Corp[175] Oracle Corp.[139][175] Pfizer Inc.[175] Starbucks[178] Yahoo![187] Single malt Major companies in Ireland known to employ the single-malt BEPS tool, include: Microsoft (LinkedIn), using Malta[64] Allergan (Zeitiq), using Malta[64] Teleflex, using Malta[63] Capital allowances for intangible assets Major companies in Ireland known to employ the capital-allowances for intangible assets ("CAIA") BEPS tool, include: Apple Inc., started in 2015[104] with the leprechaun economics affair Accenture, started in 2009[94]