Showing posts with label Corporate tax haven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corporate tax haven. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

19/2/20: Facebook becomes another Ireland Inc's reforms test case

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First the 'anti-American'  EU Commission's moved against a wonderful U.S. company washing tens of billions of tax free money t...
Monday, February 10, 2020

9/2/20: Ireland: More of a [reformed] Tax Haven than Ever Before?..

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With the demise of the last Government and the uncertain waters of Irish politics stirred by the latest election results, let me take a qu...
Friday, February 7, 2020

7/2/20: Someone, page Paul Krugman on this one: Irish Gross Value Added Data 3Q 2020

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Remember that somewhat offensive, but also somewhat apt description of the Irish 2015 growth figures that Paul Krugman came up with? Well,...
Monday, January 27, 2020

27/1/20: The Value of History and the Shifting Winds of Public Policy

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My latest contribution to the Manning Financial for January 2020 is out:  https://issuu.com/publicationire/docs/mf_january_2020?fr=sZTk2MD...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

15/12/19: Under the Hood of Irish National Accounts: 3Q 2019 Data

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CSO have released the latest (3Q 2019) data for the National Accounts. The headlines are covered in the release here:  https://www.cso.ie/...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

9/1/19: Corporate tax inversions and shareholder wealth

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Our new paper "U.S. Tax Inversions and Shareholder Wealth" has been accepted for publication in the International Review of Fina...
Monday, May 14, 2018

14/5/18: Irish Tax Avoidance Machine and the Balance of Payments

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One blog post and one paper tackling one of the greater mysteries of the Irish National Accounts, the Balance of Payments, peeling the lay...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

25/2/2018: Tax Havens and Financial Secrecy ca 2018

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The notion of what defines a tax haven is a complex one and does not easily lend itself to a precise definition. This presents numerous pr...
Friday, January 6, 2017

5/1/17: Gwan Ya Beaut... Irish PMIs ≠ Irish GDP

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Some years ago, I have shown that Irish measures of economic activity - when collected at sectoral levels - have virtually nothing in com...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

7/12/16: Bloomberg Blows the Cover on Apple's Irish Tax Dodge, Again

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So you know the $13 billion that Apple, allegedly, owes Ireland?.. It really never did owe Ireland much. Instead, it owes the money to tax...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

22/10/16: Irish 12.5% Tax Rate and Someone's Loose Lips

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It has been some time since I commented here on the matters relating to Irish corporate taxation. For a number of reasons not worth coveri...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

21/9/16: Apple Tax Case: Not the Rate, the Loopholes

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My column for the Village  covering the Apple Tax fiasco: http://villagemagazine.ie/index.php/2016/09/not-the-rate-the-loopholes/ As ...
Friday, July 29, 2016

29/7/16: Tax Regime, Apple, Fraud?

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We have finally arrived: a Nobel Prize winner, former Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank (1997-2000) on Bloomberg...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

2/2/16: MNC Ireland: A new Documentary

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A new and well-worth watching documentary on the power of multinational companies in Ireland and Ireland's status as a corporate tax h...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

26/11/15: On a long enough time line: Irish corporate inversions

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Recently, I covered the Pfizer-Allergan ‘merger’ just as Irish media navel gazed into the usual ‘jobs for Ireland’ slumber.  [You can trac...
Friday, November 6, 2015

6/11/15: Allergan & Pfizer: More Happiness for OECD Tax Reformists

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On foot of couple previous posts relating to Ireland-bound pharma inversions, here is an interesting link to the Bloomberg coverage of the...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

5/11/15: Grifols: At Last in Irish Media Spotlight

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Two weeks ago I wrote about the tax-linked Spanish pharma Grifols move to Ireland (see link here ) at the time when all Irish media was gu...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

4/8/15: Of Corporate Stash and Irish Cash

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There are two things to notice in this Bloomberg chart: Source:  http://www.bloombergview.com/quicktake/profit-shifting-avoid-tax ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

27/5/15: CCTB is Baaaack...

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It's Happy Hour again in Brussels, as the EU is reviving its plans for tax harmonisation across the continent. At stake, the EU prop...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

25/3/15: As Bogus Is, Bogus Does... IMF on Irish MNCs-led Growth

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The IMF has published its Article IV consultation paper for Ireland and I will be blogging more on this later today. For now the top-level...