Full coverage: Multinationals

The US-based visual social and marketing platform hopes to ride out the current tech slump and grow its international business further out of Dublin – despite a major tax setback revealed last year.

The online recruitment firm Indeed recently relocated more of its business to Ireland. So, how big an impact has the reorganisation had on its Irish performance? How much money flows through its Dublin offices? And how much are the 1,242 employees at its main Irish company paid?

The wave of layoffs at technology multinationals is not over. We have been there before and we can learn lessons from the past with policies that limit public finances' reliance on foreign investment and support workers and domestic companies to make the most of the predictable cycle ahead.

The parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is the largest yet of technology multinationals to prepare for redundancies in Ireland, illustrating how exposed the Irish economy is to the sector.

The global pharma company targeting rare diseases was acquired for $39 billion by AstraZeneca last year. Half of this value consisted in intellectual property located in Dublin, new documents show.

The US-headquartered software multinational was among the latest to move multi-billion-dollar intellectual property to Ireland two years ago. It was worth the wait.

Ireland's public finances have come to depend on a handful of companies that – judging by their share prices – look vulnerable. Market forecasters give an indication of the tax we might expect from them in 2023.

In their American home, the big tech firms present here are used to skilled staff working and investing in early-stage companies throughout their career. This hasn’t happened much in Ireland yet, but there are “super early signs” that change may be coming.

Intense discussions are continuing to decide how international principles agreed at OECD-sponsored tax negotiations will be implemented, and the devil is in the detail.

After a near-doubling in volume, the business recorded by Stripe in Ireland was near operating break-even point in 2021. This does not tell the full story of the online payments giant’s profitability outside the US, however.