SwiftComply makes its first two acquisitions after M33 Capital investment

Brody Sweeney built O’Brien’s Irish Sandwich Bars into a global brand. When he lost control of it, he started again with Camile Thai. The entrepreneur talks about making a franchise work and the future of the food industry.

Changes are being made to schemes like EIIS and how capital gains tax applies to angel investors. Unscripted TV is getting its own tax credit. And hospitality is none too pleased.

An amended residential zoned tax to appease farmers is back on the cards, but commercial stamp duty rates look set to stay firm despite concerns over a faltering market in the capital.

The decision comes a week after Dublin City Council refused permission for further hotel plans on Baggot Street Lower as the former waste tycoon looks to expand his accommodation offerings in the capital.

Imelda Lambkin heads up the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund, tasked with backing cutting-edge tech projects in Ireland. She talks to The Currency about the fund’s mission and its future.

Growing revenue and costs left the software multinational’s taxable profit largely unchanged in Ireland, where the amortisation of intellectual property dictates much of its financial performance.

Founded by the North’s first Chief Scientific and Technology Adviser Professor Helen McCarthy, Phion Therapeutics had a pipeline of exciting treatments. But now administrators have been appointed to the firm, which is backed by a Hong Kong top-40 pharmaceutical company.

The US-listed company, which owns a medical device plant in Galway, moved its incorporation – and tax residence – from Switzerland to Ireland this week.

Since presenting its budget this time last year, the Government has agreed to spend €1.5bn more on health in 2024 and another €2.7bn more next year. Based on internal documents, here is the detail of where the money is going.

The digital games tax credit arrived in late 2022 but it has had several problems, according to Irish studios who say many of their functions are excluded from eligibility.