Ireland demands $1.9 billion in back taxes from Perrigo

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's tax authorities have demanded that drugmaker Perrigo , formerly known as Elan, pay 1.64 billion euros (1.48 billion pounds) in taxes relating to the calendar year 2013, a U.S. securities filing showed.It is one of the biggest demands for back taxes ever made in Ireland, although well below EU antitrust regulators' demand in 2016 that Apple pay the Irish government 13 billion euros.According to the filing, Irish Revenue Commissioners say that intellectual property..