Government needs to be creative in response to Apple tax probe

A creative, relevant and agile government response is required to the tax probe launched by the EU into Apple, the concerns of the US Senate and the widely reported comments of governor Jerry Brown of California.

If the impact of these are not to inevitably take their toll on the sentiment of foreign direct investors towards Ireland.

Major international corporations will be extremely concerned about unanticipated liabilities and the reputational implications of any EU ruling that is discerned as being adverse to their interests and those of their institutional and personal shareholders.