Ireland: Back on the market

Jamie Smyth writes in the FT here.

IMF Fiscal Monitor: Tax Reform

The new FM report has a lot of detail on tax reform options – here.

Draghi: Europe’s pursuit of ‘a more perfect Union’

This is an interesting speech from Mario Draghi here.

Financial Illiteracy

Simon Nixon writes here.

Google’s Tax Planning

The Dutch Sandwich and Double Irish figure prominently in this FT article about Google’s tax returns for 2012.
It seems that Google Netherlands Holdings, which represents the Dutch part of the sandwich, received €8.6bn in royalties from Google Ireland Ltd last year.