The FT has reported that: Dublin [has] strongly rejected allegations contained in a US Senate Committee report that it is a tax haven But then every tax
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Ireland is a doormat state when it comes to tax: a place where companies wipe the dirt from their feet and move their money on
Ireland is claiming today that it is not reposnible for Apple paying low rates of tax. Quite emphatically that is not true. Ireland is completely
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If you thought the economic crisis in Ireland was all over, it may not have even begun yet
As the FT reports this morning: [In Ireland] evictions are expected to rise after the EU, ECB and IMF insisted banks repossess more houses. One
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Corporation tax and Northern Ireland’s politicians: the lemmings have been ushered away from the cliff
Andrew Baker, with whom I have co-authored, had a good piece in the Belfast Telegraph yesterday on the lonely campaign he, I and a few others with ICTU
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A campaign win: Northern Ireland is not going to be a tax haven, yet
For the last 30 months or so I have been arguing against a cut in the corporation tax rate in Northern Ireland to match that in the Irish Republic.
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Northern Ireland is at an economic crossroads and cutting corporation tax would be the wrong turning
I have co-written a comment article on Northern Ireland’s corporation tax debate with Andrew Baker, a Reader in Political Economy at Queen’s University, Belfast for the blog of
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Ireland maintains it’s not a tax haven, but they all say that
I was amused by the FT’s juxtaposition of a report on some growth in the Irish economy, about which the Irish Development Authority had obviously delivered some puff to
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Apple forgot to mention Luxembourg
Kenneth Thomas makes a very good point about Apple’s tax accounting. As he has pointed out this morning: Some commenters on my article [on Apple]
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Facebook is doing a Double Irish
For these who can get through the paywall The Sunday Times and others have an article today on Facebook copying the worst of Google’s tax
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