From property funds to securitisation vehicles, Ireland's financial architecture now has extraordinary scale. Understanding it may be the next challenge.
Beneath the headline profits of banks, insurers, and IFSC firms lies a lesser-known story: over €100bn in accumulated losses that continue to influence corporate tax payments across the financial sector.
As the Government continues to back one of the country's flagship industries, Revenue records offer a clearer picture of the corporation tax, employment taxes and Vat flows generated by aircraft lessors.
A cornerstone of Ireland's international financial services sector, Section 110 companies generate little tax revenue despite overseeing vast sums of capital. As calls for transparency of the regime grow, new data reveal what it means for the Exchequer.
LPS International Plant Limited, a Co Galway plant-hire business, owes a staggering €106m to Revenue in undeclared Vat, interest and penalties, and is now in liquidation. How did it get here?
The Government’s own plan is to increase budgetary reliance on windfall corporation tax receipts. Something has to give before it’s too late, its fiscal watchdog has warned.
The High Court heard a phased payment to the tax authority was missed in error and has granted firms linked to the developer time to file an affidavit detailing a proposal to address the tax debts.
The EU warns Irish State coffers depend on “a few individual companies”, as confirmed in new Exchequer figures for May.
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.
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