The tax take: Bowing to the inevitable

Other nations can only dream of the tax compliance levels achieved in this country

Amajor indigenous organisation is recruiting for 400 secure and well paid jobs in the areas of information and communications technologies, finance and economics. This apparently constitutes a net increase of about 200 in its workforce.

A jobs initiative of the scale usually demands a ministerial announcement and lots of photographs involving banners with corporate logos, glass-fronted lobbies and smiling executives. But the organisation in question is the Revenue Commissioners, so perhaps the usual ...