The High Court has clarified the tax treatment of foreign withholding tax on royalties collected by an Irish subsidiary of the consulting multinational.
Tech multinationals pay a disproportionate amount of income tax, USC, and PRSI. While the spotlight has been on potential swings in corporation tax, AI-driven job cuts, too, could threaten Ireland’s budget balance.
EU Inc – a bloc-wide company registration – is touted as a way to rev up European tech start-ups. MEPs meanwhile are trying to figure out how the whole thing will be taxed.
A pre-budget visit by executives from Medtronic, Eaton, and Johnson Controls to then-minister Paschal Donohoe was just the latest in efforts to preserve the position of their Irish HQs as the transatlantic tax playing field levels.
A job-hopping lawyer accessed files and recruited lawyers at elite firms to tip traders about pending deals, prosecutors say, writes David Michaels, The Wall Street Journal.
Personal taxes set at their current levels during the financial crisis are unfair – particularly when we examine what has been done with the resulting State revenues.
A farmer has failed to overturn a seven-figure tax bill as claims 3.4 million litres of marked gas oil were used in their own farm operations were found to have no credibility by the Tax Appeals Commission.
The Government is facing industry opposition, intense lobbying, and backbencher resistance over proposals aimed at airing tax appeals in public – but Simon Harris says he is constrained by a Supreme Court decision.
More than two years after the Supreme Court ruled Domino's Pizza delivery drivers were PAYE employees, not contractors, artists and writers appearing at public libraries are the latest freelancers affected by new tax rules.
Non compliance with a Brexit carve-out saw an Irish company that imports second-hand mobile phones hit with a multi-million-euro Vat liability in a case that is now going to the High Court.
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