Full coverage: Tax

While exploring the tech industry for the Mapping Multinationals series, Thomas Hubert had to adjust from the real world to understand the sheer volume of financial flows he was looking at. His reporting highlights the need for increased corporate transparency requirements.

Yesreb, a Cypriot registered firm linked to Sean Dunne that once owned Walford, has issued High Court proceedings against the Irish tax authority over a €1.4m tax dispute.

Northern Ireland man Martin Shields was at the centre of what has been described as the “biggest tax theft in the history of Europe.” He offered full cooperation during his prosecution, which last week came to an end.

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?

What are the corporate cut-outs used by rogue businesses to launder green diesel? Drawing from official documents and real-life cases, we describe the operation and the finances of the diesel laundering industry.

Irish banks are wasting away, along with the rest of the European banking industry. ECB regulation is a big part of the problem. When banks can't make money from lending, that's bad for shareholders, the economy, and eventually the taxpayer.

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.

Every political party has pledged to change Ireland’s taxation system for the better. Some want to remove property tax. Some want to double it. What should be done? In his column, Stephen Kinsella looks at the options and recommends a new approach to the taxation of the scarcest of all commodities: land.

The paperwork said you were not entitled to get your money back. But it did not matter as investors were poised to benefit from huge tax losses. Today, we reveal how one of the most audacious Irish tax schemes worked – and how it came unstuck.