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Full coverage: Multinationals

“Significant increase in opportunities”: Tallaght-based vulture fund resumes EU bad debt purchase spree

Cabot Financial Ireland and its Dublin subsidiaries have grown their assets and revenue from non-performing loans acquired from Portugal to Poland – as well as the taxable Irish profit arising from this business.

Thomas Hubert
26th Aug, 2022 - 5 min read

The OECD tax deal was for a level playing field. The US bill on a 15% minimum rate is ignoring it

Instead of playing along the rules agreed by 137 countries to raise corporation tax to a global minimum, Democratic Senators have selected the bits that favour narrow American interests – and put international co-operation at risk.

Thomas Hubert
12th Aug, 2022 - 7 min read

A €45m rent-a-CEO Vat dispute: Medtronic unit and Revenue square up in High Court

For years, the Irish-headquartered medical supplier Covidien outsourced core functions to the US without paying Vat on transactions including preparations for its acquisition by Medtronic. The company’s successful tax appeal is now going down the legal route.

Thomas Hubert
9th Aug, 2022 - 2 min read

Soaring revenue, a 46% net profit and $3bn in dividends: Viatris gets off to a roaring start in Little Island

With over 200 staff, the Co Cork pharmaceutical factory was among those sold off by Pfizer in 2020 to combine with Mylan and form Viatris. New information is available on its first year of trading within the new group.

Thomas Hubert
2nd Aug, 2022 - 2 min read

Norton’s streamlined Irish operation gears into billion-dollar group funding

Years of restructuring at the cybersecurity multinational NortonLifeLock have left it with just two subsidiaries in north Dublin: one booking sales around the world, and one managing the group’s cash and intercompany debt. Meanwhile, Google reports exponential growth in card payments processed in Ireland.

Thomas Hubert
19th Jul, 2022 - 4 min read

The 28 US multinationals set to move (some) tax away from Ireland – and the complex OECD rules behind it

Last year’s global tax deal now comes with draft “Pillar one” provisions detailing how much taxable profit will be re-allocated to market countries, and where from. This is what it means for multinationals operating here.

Thomas Hubert
18th Jul, 2022 - 6 min read

“Potentially unsustainable”: Why is everybody warning about Ireland’s corporation tax risk?

Central Bank economists are the latest to add their voice to the clamour alerting over the concentration of the tax take among a small number of multinational corporate taxpayers. What is the real danger?

Thomas Hubert
8th Jul, 2022 - 7 min read

Project X and Company Y: How a major Irish tax row unveiled the rent-a-CEO structure at the core of multinational inversions

Through a series of mergers and demergers in the last decade, a global pharmaceutical manufacturer became Irish. To defend itself against a Vat claim, it had to reveal the details of the scheme.

Thomas Hubert
5th Jul, 2022 - 9 min read

Revenue refunded a record amount of stamp duty last year. A pharma mega-merger explains it all

Exchequer returns showed swings of hundreds of millions of euros between 2020 and 2021 following a dispute on emergency stamp duty rules. The exact details of the settlement reached between AbbVie and the tax authority, however, remain secret.

Thomas Hubert
30th May, 2022 - 3 min read

Intellectual property, liquidations and tax: The Facebook double Irish subsidiary that refuses to die

In compliance with the 2020 deadline to end the double Irish scheme, the social media giant’s Dublin office placed its Cayman-resident companies in liquidation. They have now disappeared – except one.

Thomas Hubert
23rd May, 2022 - 3 min read
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