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I would guess it has to do with the "Double Irish" tax shelter: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-
by jarin 15y ago
I would guess it has to do with the "Double Irish" tax shelter:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...
- Loic 15y agoAnd this is why the EU Amazon datacenter is there too. Irish is good for royalty based stuff (software etc.) and they invoice everything hardware (the retailer side of Amazon) from Luxembourg where you can negotiate your taxes with the authorities. Oh, the result, is that Ireland is definitely not the best place to serve Europe from a latency point of view... so we have bad latency from EC2 EU because of fiscal optimizations...
- wgx 15y agoOr the "Dutch Sandwich" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_Arrangement#Dutch_Sandwich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_Arrangement#Dutch_...