Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you
Fine Gael's promise to scrap the USC is not all it seems
The party has been accused of backtracking on an election pledge before we’ve even voted.
Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you
The party has been accused of backtracking on an election pledge before we’ve even voted.
If re-elected Micheal Noonan has committed the government to phasing out USC as resources allow. Can it be done?
A smile from the Finance Minister wouldn’t go amiss.
We asked the party’s jobs spokesperson Dara Calleary.
The unpopular tax takes in some €4 billion annually.
The Taoiseach and Tánaiste have been talking tax in recent days.
The opposition party has come under attack for its budget proposals this week.
The Taoiseach has been responding to criticism of Ireland’s tax regime by British Prime Minister David Cameron this week.
In the run-up to Budget 2015, Dr Daragh McGreal looks at the various arguments around lowering the rate of VAT.
And on our beloved corporation tax, the Minister said: “That’s our business, it can’t be imposed on us, and we’re gonna keep it at 12.5 per cent.”
The Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil spokesperson Michael McGrath were responding to news that the European Commission is scrutinising Ireland’s tax regime.
“Clearly Ireland does not fall at all in this category,” Pascal Saint Amans told an Oireachtas committee today.
Enda Kenny met with Barack Obama at the G8 summit in Lough Erne this week but did not raise recent US Senate committee claims about Ireland being a tax haven for Apple.
Enda Kenny was speaking to the media as the G8 summit came to a conclusion in Lough Erne today.
G8 leaders are likely to announce new measures that will make companies more transparent when it comes to taxation.
Enda Kenny said recent criticism of Ireland’s tax regime did not come up in his discussions with G8 leaders yesterday.
Safe to say we know what Sammy Wilson wants to see on the G8 agenda, then.
A Congressional committee has been told that a ‘carrot and stick’ approach is favoured among politicians and US businesses.
The leaders of Catholics from 11 countries say corporations, like citizens, have a moral duty to pay their fair share.
Carl Levin and John McCain have dismissed the Irish ambassador’s account of Ireland’s corporate tax system.
The finance minister says the supposed ’2 per cent’ tax rate wrongly implies that Apple’s global profits are all taxable here.
Oxfam says we shouldn’t just focus on companies: the world’s wealthy could have billions stashed away here.
The heads of the 27 EU member states have called for ‘rapid progress’ on plans to stop companies abusing international structures.