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Corporate tax rates, luring US pharma companies back, and regulating the tech firms – what’s in it for Ireland?
Ireland has come under pressure in recent years to address its corporate tax rates for multinationals, but insists it has taken major steps to improve the system.
If windfalls are going to be to be used, they should be used to reduce Ireland’s debt.
The tax was cut to 9% to stimulate the tourism industry in 2012.
The plans will lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%.
It’s time that the Irish government and multinationals start to reconsider their attitudes about tax, writes Sorley McCaughey.
But European officials said the unsolicited report from PwC ‘misinterpreted’ the relevant rules.
Oxfam said Ireland’s score was based on its lack of effective rules to prevent corporate tax dodging and because it facilitates large-scale corporate tax avoidance.
Significant cuts to UK and US corpoate taxes are seen as direct threats to Ireland’s industrial strategy.
The move of the Brazilian multinational’s parent company has been criticised as a “brass-plate operation”.
The tech giant paid just €5,000 in corporate tax in the UK in 2014, by routing its profits through Ireland.
The social network’s local arm did, however, record a big leap in turnover.
But Simon Coveney insists the Republic is nobody’s tax haven.
The deal between Pfizer and Allergan is the biggest so-called tax ‘inversion’ in corporate history.
Anyone in our political sphere who proposes to jeopardise this arrangement from within is an economic saboteur, writes Aaron McKenna.
The company employed nearly 3,000 people across Ireland in 2014.
The OECD has a lot to say about where the country is headed in its latest survey.
This week we chatted with the head of US software company Nitro – and he didn’t hold back.
We’re looking at you, Bermuda.
Pressure from Germany and France could see the European Commission reveal an initial plan on the matter next month.
A levelling of the playing field across Europe has long been in the pipeline, but is it all an EU smokescreen?
The preliminary ruling is putting more pressure on European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker.
The luxleaks scandal has given Germany and France “cover” to push their agendas, the MEP says.
This was the week in business.
The company made a huge leap in pre-tax profits.
Grief over that claimed ‘sweetheart’ tax deal just won’t go away.
If the richest three people spent $1 million every day, it would take 220 years to run out of money.
Michael Noonan wants more companies to invest their money in Ireland.
But Michael Noonan says Ireland’s low corporate tax rate “never was, never has been” up for discussion.
Medtronic execs hit with €48 million bill for moving company’s tax from US to Ireland
This was the week in business.
Corporate tax avoidance is bad for the global economy, paper reports.
The Taoiseach is pretty confident that Ireland hasn’t broken any rules.
Ireland cannot give with one hand to developing countries while facilitating tax avoidance at the same time, writes Morina O’Neill.
The proposal is part of a wide range of measures planned by the EU to tackle tax evasion.
“AOL missed the marketplace,” admits Tim Armstrong in Dublin but shares the lessons the company has learned.
CEO of IDA Ireland Barry O’Leary told the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee that foreign companies are paying a substantial amount of corporation tax.
What do you think? Should we fight to hold on to our low corporate tax rate?
Eric Schmidt said governments see their own tax breaks as incentives while calling other countries “tax havens”.