Full coverage: Multinationals

The US-based cybersecurity multinational recently renamed NortonLifeLock is winding up a multi-billion dollar Irish-registered subsidiary. None of its 500-plus Irish jobs are at risk, but the paper move illustrates the staggering sums routed through shifting tax structures.

To understand how vulture fund Cerberus manages billions of euros’ worth of Irish assets, you must look to Baarn, a small town 45 minutes away from Amsterdam. From there, you will see just how the fund is managing to flatline its tax bill, a two-month investigation by The Currency can reveal.

One of the world’s leading manufacturers of electronic components has just invested another $1.5 billion in its Irish subsidiary and reported tax benefits dwarfing its actual profits for the second straight year. Could the two be related?

Unlike other tech multinationals, the US online retail and cloud computing behemoth has not chosen Ireland as its European corporate beachhead. Yet the group has quietly been ramping up a multi-billion data centre presence around Dublin, and is now moving into the renewable energy market.

Based in the Dublin suburb of Clonskeagh, Skillsoft emerged from Irish tech pioneer SmartForce. The company is now weighing up several restructuring options across Ireland, the UK and the US.

While exploring the tech industry for the Mapping Multinationals series, Thomas Hubert had to adjust from the real world to understand the sheer volume of financial flows he was looking at. His reporting highlights the need for increased corporate transparency requirements.

In the final part of our series, our interactive map shows where in the country the world’s top technology firms have anchored billions in revenue and profit, along with 43,000 jobs.

Amid heightened international agitation by foreign governments over the global tax code, our Mapping Multinationals series showed just how crucial Ireland is to the global operations of many global titans – and how crucial their success is to us. But have we gone too far?

From chips to servers, hundreds of billions' worth of technology hardware is sold through Ireland each year, often without ever reaching its shores. In the latest instalment of the Mapping multinationals series, we explore how.

Mapping Multinationals: Exit the double Irish, enter the green jersey. Following into the footsteps of Apple, US-based tech multinationals incentivised by shifting tax rules have been accelerating onshorings of intangible assets here.