Willis, the world's third-largest insurance broker, plans to move its global headquarters from Bermuda to the Irish Republic, becoming the latest in a string of multinational companies to leave the low-tax Caribbean island.
The company said Dublin provided “a more stable environment” and would improve Willis's ability to “maintain a competitive worldwide effective corporate tax rate”.
Willis follows Accenture, the consulting group, and about 10 others in announcing a move away from Bermuda since Barack Obama became US president and began to take a much tougher line on tax havens, saying their widespread use by American businesses was “the biggest tax scam in the world”.