By tinkering with corporation tax, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe is giving assurances that Ireland is ready for the 15 per cent minimum rate. There may be deeper reforms on the table, but they will be for his successor to lead to fruition.
The European Parliament’s tax group is visiting Ireland to tackle the use of this country as a base to locate profits “at the expense of taxpayers in Europe,” according to its chair. Sinn Féin’s position in support of current tax policy is part of the equation.
A business linked to a former member of Israel’s cyber warfare unit is under investigation by the European Parliament after its software was used to spy on a Greek journalist. Its corporate headquarters is in Ireland.
Income tax competition is the new corporation tax. And, as the state grows ever more reliant upon income tax, the companies paying the most of it want it to be reduced. What happens next?
Pascal Saint-Amans’s career as OECD tax director culminated one year ago when he secured a global agreement to overhaul corporation tax. As he leaves this position, he assesses the work remaining to be done.
In part two of our investigation into the Ingka Group's Irish corporate structures, we unlock the retail giant’s Irish-operated investment strategy and explain how a number of Irish subsidiaries in Ireland help reduce its overall tax liabilities.
From a discreet building in Ballsbridge, a few dozen staff running the Ingka Group's international bank and financial investment fund now manage over €30 billion in liquid assets – and counting. This investigation opens the door to the low-key Dublin office.
The Minister for Finance heads to an EU meeting in Prague hopeful of a 15% corporation tax directive, but the full OECD agreement is far from ready for implementation.
An international agreement has just led the Danish tax appeal body to reject a claim by the Irish subsidiary of a multinational that it didn’t have a permanent establishment in Denmark. There are many more with similar arrangements.
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.
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