Ireland has long been a good place to be tax resident, whether it is for the treatment of Bono’s royalties or the level of corporate tax paid by big business.
It’s a curiosity of globalisation that Ireland now boasts 13 out of the top 20 pharmaceuticals companies and six of the 10 best-selling drugs, including Lipitor, Pfizer’s cholesterol buster, and Plavix, the blood thinner developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb.
