Irish tax proposal will not eliminate “double Irish,” say attorneys

Even if Ireland eliminates the Irish incorporated non-resident company, as proposed in the 2015 Irish budget, the tax benefits of  the “double Irish Dutch sandwich,”can still be achieved by setting up a Irish company managed and controlled in Malta or the UAE instead of a Caribbean nation because of provisions in Ireland’s existing tax treaties with those nations, writes Jeffrey L. Rubinger and Summer Ayers LePree of Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP in an October 23 website post. See, Bilzin Sumberg.