Thomas Hubert

The Paris-listed Paragon ID manufacturer of passports, transport cards and smart retail tags is going private. The buy-out offer was launched from a low-key office suite in Sandyford.

A Paris court is holding the fourth successive trial of the inheritance tax dispute involving two generations of the billionaire Wildenstein family. Their bloodstock interests were located in Irish companies – until very recently.

Five years after breeding problems emerged on an Irish pig farm, a dispute illustrating the high-tech international supply chain behind livestock genetics is going legal.

The pharmaceutical group has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the US for the second time in two years, with its Dublin HQ and IP centre due to follow suit here this week.

A promised measure to exempt foreign dividends from corporation tax will make no financial difference but was a key simplification demand of FDI investors.

After Budget 2024, multinationals will no longer have access to a 12.5% rate in Ireland. There is still a lot more they can do to locate profits here at a tax advantage, however, and the unofficial expectation for the Exchequer is: more money.

For years, the double Irish scheme siphoned multinationals’ profits to offshore islands. Now their intellectual property makes half of all corporate profits in Ireland tax-deductible. Ahead of the budget, new data and analysis reveal what drives the corporation tax bonanza.

Veteran property investment manager Donal Mulcahy started the firm behind office deals across Europe and the development of over 7,000 new homes in Ireland.

The Norwegian-headquartered investment firm is backing the Irish solar-as-a-service company to expand into Europe and provides a balance between debt and equity funding.

Here is a radical proposal to ease worries about Dublin’s most-hated thoroughfare: Go there before you pass judgement.