The main Irish unit of US software giant Adobe paid just $41m (€34.7m) in corporation tax last year, despite its revenues rising by 19% to $2.23bn (€1.88bn).

PRE-TAX profits at the main Irish unit of US software giant, Adobe last year dropped by 11% to $531.1m (€395.2m) in spite of revenues climbing to over $2 billion (€1.49bn).