Originally Posted by j636
Could you name on as Ireland is the cheepest place in Europe for them to have there HQ. Remenber most FR employees are on Irish contracts.
Based on what criteria? If you're talking about the corporate tax rate, they could retain a tax base in Ireland while outsourcing most of the management functions to another country. But Ireland doesn't even have the lowest corporate tax rate in the EU, that goes to the Canary Islands whose rate is just 4%. The next lowest rate is in Cyprus, Hungary, and Bulgaria at 10%.