A strong showing by the US software multinational in December helped maintain annual growth in corporation tax receipts.
Stock market investors agreed to back W3bcloud's plans to build a multinational data centre operator for blockchain and crypto technologies. Instead, the Irish companies due to handle its profits are facing insolvency.
The IT multinational’s Irish operation bucked the global downturn as Carolan Lennon took the helm. And it grew its tax advantage even further.
The IT multinational may be selling its Dublin campus, but it still has plenty of accumulated profits in Ireland to send back to headquarters.
Monster energy might not have the scale of an Apple or a Pfizer in Ireland, but it has a significant operation here nonetheless. And, based on new filings, it could get bigger still.
US-headquartered, Chinese-owned Riot Games is hiring to beef up its third global tax team in Dublin, where intellectual property has turned its office into a billion-euro business.
Italy has been leading the charge to force the platform to collect tax at source on hosts’ income. Airbnb’s Dublin office is paying up.
The social media giant re-invested half of the profits distributed by its Dublin advertising business last year. Ireland itself is the main destination of this splurge on cloud infrastructure.
Using a green Bermuda corporate structure, the US group’s lucrative EMC cloud division is continuing to shift $8.6 billion and counting in profits from sales booked in Cork to the zero-tax Caribbean jurisdiction.
Alphabet group companies in Dublin have paid nearly €10bn in dividends to their US parents in the past two years. Much like the hiring spree that preceded them, they were part of “a different economic reality”.
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