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noun
A form of tax avoidance, based on the Double Irish arrangement, in which revenues from income of sales of the products shipped by the second Irish company are first booked by a shell company in the Netherlands, taking advantage of generous tax laws there.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
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History
The two Irish holding companies can be imagined as "bread", with the Netherlands company as a filling between them.
