The Department of Finance described much of the latest bumper corporation tax revenue as a once-off windfall. Yet every indication is that aggressive tax planning through Ireland is set to continue.
We need to have a reckoning with how, for decades, camouflaged as it may have been, government here ceded considerable power to the Catholic Church.
We are a small open economy caught between some very large economies turning increasingly protectionist. Depending on how we choose to look at things, we can make bold policy choices and progress, or we can stagnate.
Intangible assets are critical to growth and living standards. It's worrying that we're getting worse at making them.
Tara Shine reflects on her recent participation in the COP27 climate summit and pulls the threads connecting apparently remote UN negotiations with the real-life business environment, from tax to building obligations.
More than 400 people earning €80,000 or more responded to The Panel's most recent survey covering a wide variety of issues. Here is what we learned.
Rivalry within and between sporting codes has inhibited ground-sharing and taxpayers’ money has already been spent, or allocated, for stadium developments without persuasive plans for adequate utilisation. Or any credible plans at all.
The banker pay cap, which was partially lifted this week, was politically popular. But it was a bad idea. Bankers should be paid the going rate because limiting pay makes banks less valuable, less efficient, and no less likely to blow up.
Ireland may be about to lose out on a land grab. We are in the middle of an intellectual property gold rush. Will our failure to join the creation of a new patent system bring that gold rush to an end?
It's a good idea to buy stocks when the market is selling off. The same logic might even apply to bitcoin.
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