Showing posts with label OECD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OECD. Show all posts
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...
Monday, September 9, 2019

9/9/19: Ireland and OECD: Income Tax Rates Comparatives

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Based on the OECD data for 2018, Ireland is the second worst OECD country to earn income from work at the upper margin of earnings (167% o...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

12/8/19: OECD Tax Plans: Some Bad News

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My column for the Cayman Financial Review  covering OECD latest tax reforms proposals:  https://www.caymanfinancialreview.com/2019/08/02/o...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

5/1/16: What Aggregate R&D Spends Tell Us? Actually... little

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In a recent comment on R&D Expenditure across the OECD countries, WEF has referenced Irish data on R&D spending as % of GDP at 1.5...
Friday, November 20, 2015

20/11/15: The Inversion Debate Isn’t Over: Credit Suisse

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A brief Credit Suisse note on corporate inversions, with an honourable mentioning for Ireland:  https://www.thefinancialist.com/spark/the-...
Friday, October 30, 2015

30/10/15: None of Them 'Harmful' Tax Inversions, Dupes...

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Remember how in recent months, on foot of an uproar in the U.S. and across the EU, Irish Government has told us that there will be no ‘har...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

7/10/15: Two Reports, One Ireland, Hundreds of Billions in MNCs' Profits

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Two interesting headlines in recent days brought back the memories of recent hot-flash splashes of news regarding Ireland's position a...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

2/8/15: Credit and Growth: A Marriage Not Made in Haven

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My recent post for @LearnSignal on the OECD report on the role of banks-intermediated credit in economic growth:  http://blog.learnsignal....
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

17/9/2014: Letting Go Ireland's Tax Arbitrage Model Will be a Painful Process

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OECD has put forward their proposals for new international tax rules that, in theory, could eliminate tax-optimisation structures that have...
Monday, September 15, 2014

15/9/2014: OECD Economic Outlook: It's Worse than the Cover Says...

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Keeping in mind that the OECD is a cooperative international body (aka not known for taking strong positions on anything, save lunch menu)...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

15/5/2014: Jobs & Employment: Lot Done, More to Do, Still

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The is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from April 27. As cooperative organisations go, Paris-based OECD is one of the...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

17/11/2013: Irish Government Score Card 2013: OECD

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Well-summarised insights from the OECD on Irish Government performance based on 2011-2012 data:  http://www.oecd.org/gov/GAAG2013_CFS_IRE....
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

12/11/2013: OECD Leading Indicators: September 2013

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The poverty of non-recovery recovery... OECD Leading indicators numbers are out and we have... 100.7 current (barely any growth) against...
Monday, July 1, 2013

1/7/2013: Summary of education systems stats for Ireland, 2013

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Interesting numbers on education system in Ireland, compared to OECD and EU21:  http://ec.europa.eu/ireland/press_office/news_of_the_day/pd...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

20/6/2013: Some facts about income inequality in Ireland and across OECD

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Here's an interesting chart from the OECD's latest analysis of income inequality changes during the crisis: Chart: Market income ...
Monday, February 18, 2013

18/2/2013: OECD on Corpo Tax Havens for G20

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Just as G20 was starting to make noises about corporate tax havens at their meeting in Moscow ( here ) the OECD produced a convenient pape...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

19/1/2013: Euro area banks need EUR400bn in capital: OECD

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An interesting article via Euromoney ( January 14, 2013 ) on European banks facing EUR400bn in capital shortfall estimated by the OECD. ...