Tax
Comment: Ireland’s tolerance of tax loopholes causes serious harm to poor countries
Nobel Prize-winning economists have said the country’s opposition to reforming the international system is ‘a success for Ireland, a loss for the rest of the world’
Just over thirty years ago, in September 1992, Ireland ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. A major international human rights treaty, the most widely-ratified in history, it sets out the rights to which all children, everywhere, are entitled.
It also sets clear obligations on states, whose progress is assessed every five years by a committee of independent experts, and this year it’s Ireland’s turn.
Minister Roderic O’Gorman and officials faced two ...
