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There is little evidence to suggest that the corporation tax bounty will dry up. But with the budget approaching, it is politically useful for the budgetary ministers to voice their concerns and show their caution.

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.

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

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.

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.

For years, the double Irish scheme siphoned multinationals’ profits to offshore islands. Now their intellectual property makes half of all corporate profits in Ireland tax-deductible. Ahead of the budget, new data and analysis reveal what drives the corporation tax bonanza.

There is little to no economic logic for giving tax breaks to landlords, and the people who need help – those providing new supply and those in rental accommodation – can be helped in other, more targeted ways.

Alan Moore has been a tax official, a tax adviser, a tax educator, a tax writer, and now, at a time when most people of his age are retiring, an entrepreneur. He talks about tax scams, raising funds, and the future of accountancy.

The tax authority stopped its enforcement activity during he pandemic. However, it has been building up its debt cases again over the past 18 months, as evidenced by new data analysing Revenue’s activities over the past five years.

Through a HQ inversion, the US-listed medical manufacturer Covidien was liable to pay tax in Ireland but Revenue rejected hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of expenses it had claimed as deductible.