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Full coverage: Multinationals

Microchip is chipping away at its double malt structure

With all EU countries obligated to impose the 15 per cent minimum corporation tax rate from next year, a multi-billion-dollar subsidiary of the semiconductor giant straddling Ireland and Malta is moving away from Dublin. But where will the tax be paid eventually?

Thomas Hubert
16th Oct, 2023 - 3 min read

“I want to keep those big names coming to Ireland, but I also want us to build big names out of Ireland”

Simon Coveney says he wants to help build a “new economy”. What does it look like, and where does Budget 2024 fit into the plan? The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment sets out his case.

Ian Kehoe
13th Oct, 2023 - 9 min read

US seeks $29bn in back taxes from Microsoft over double Irish period

Microsoft has just disclosed a multi-billion-dollar dispute with the IRS over the transfer pricing arrangements it put in place two decades ago. Ireland was central to those structures.

Thomas Hubert
12th Oct, 2023 - 4 min read

The multinational slowdown will weigh heavily on the budget

As corporation tax receipts fall below forecasts, the largest payments yet to come this year will determine the new trend after years of runaway growth.

Thomas Hubert
4th Oct, 2023 - 3 min read

Higher costs show Stripe’s Irish presence keeps growing

Stripe’s rising expenditure in accounts filed in Ireland tells us more about the consolidation of Dublin as its tax centre than about its profitability.

Thomas Hubert
29th Sep, 2023 - 3 min read

Less than two years after its first examinership, Mallinckrodt is set to seek bankruptcy protection in Ireland once again

The pharmaceutical group has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the US for the second time in two years, with its Dublin HQ and IP centre due to follow suit here this week.

Thomas Hubert
18th Sep, 2023 - 2 min read

The green jersey – part 4: The State is becoming existentially reliant on corporation tax

No one really cares where windfall corporation tax is coming from as long as it keeps coming and, absent radical political change in the US, it likely will. What to do with it? We currently have no coherent answer.

Stephen Kinsella
15th Sep, 2023 - 5 min read

In a changing tax world, the Government’s “participation exemption” tells multinationals that it is on their side

A promised measure to exempt foreign dividends from corporation tax will make no financial difference but was a key simplification demand of FDI investors.

Thomas Hubert
14th Sep, 2023 - 3 min read

The green jersey – Part 3: Why has the US stood by while big tech and big pharma Irish-shored so much of its tax base?

No one really thinks that Ireland’s €250 billion domestic economy is generating €200 billion in profits for American multinational firms. To recover its tax base, the US should reform its own rules.

Brad Setser
14th Sep, 2023 - 6 min read

The green jersey – Part 2: Irish corporation tax in a 15% world

After Budget 2024, multinationals will no longer have access to a 12.5% rate in Ireland. There is still a lot more they can do to locate profits here at a tax advantage, however, and the unofficial expectation for the Exchequer is: more money.

Thomas Hubert
13th Sep, 2023 - 17 min read
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