Full coverage: Multinationals

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.

Ireland makes much of its relationships to the world’s financial structure and has has a passable relationship with the knowledge structure. But it knows almost nothing about its security structure, or where it sits within the mesh of global value chains.

Mapping Multinationals series: A US Tax Court has turned the spotlight on the Irish corporate structure developed by Facebook over the past decade. We reveal how the multinational and its competitor Twitter have been re-assessing how to channel profits and intellectual property through Ireland.

In the latest installment of the Mapping Multinationals series, we unlock Microsoft's Irish presence - the tax tactics, the IP moves and the dividend strategy.

The central party after the election has become the first major political force to question Ireland’s approach to foreign direct investment. In government, it would raise additional tax revenue from multinationals – but how sustainable would that be?

Irish-registered subsidiaries of US-based technology companies have been distributing hundreds of billions to their parents since the start of 2018, illustrating the scale of reserves built offshore through the use of tax schemes over the years.

From taxing multinationals to strengthening business ties in the wake of Brexit and getting lost in the Irish legal system, France’s pointman in Ireland inaugurates our new series of interviews with ambassadors to Dublin: Diplomatically speaking.