Toronto’s Globe and Mail had a good article on social inequality in Ireland yesterday. It’s big issue, but the bit of the report I really
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Ireland is not a developing country
I’m a bit late in drawing attention to this – but holidays sometimes interrupt the best laid plans, and Sheila Killian’s article in the July
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Geldof does a Bono
I missed this one whilst away: Geldof plays the tax market in the same way that Bono does. In his case he’s using his non-domicile
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No low tax for Northern Ireland
Some welcome news from the FT: Plans by Northern Ireland’s new power-sharing executive to stimulate foreign investment by cutting corporation tax have been dashed. In
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Jersey – trying to have it both ways
This week Jersey has tried to be all thing to all people. First it tells the US Senate how compliant its finance industry. Then it
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The Banks spill the beans
Accountancy Age report that UK accountants PKF have seen evidence that the banks who have made disclosure of offshore bank accounts held by UK resident
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Northern Ireland – a tax haven in the making?
A corespondent sent me the following. I could have edited it, but I wont. It seems a fair summary: Now that the northern Irish have
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Irish lawyer – dodging the EU Code of Conduct
Finfacts, one of the best sources of what is going on in Ireland, has reported: Cruickshank, Ireland’s leading firm of patent and intellectual property attorneys,
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Ireland – Sic Transit gloria
It looks like Microsoft’s love affair with Ireland is fleeting. According to the Irish Independent (behind a registration wall) in the past two years Microsoft’s
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