(Bloomberg) -- Ireland just landed a challenge most countries would envy: how to spend an almost €13.8 billion ($15.2 billion) windfall that Apple Inc. was ordered to pay in taxes by the European Union’s top court. That’s equivalent of 14% of government spending this year, or some €2,700 for every man, woman and child.

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