OECD tax reform proposals are not in Ireland's interest

The Tax Take with Brian Keegan.

Jose Ángel Gurría, secretary-general of the OECD, which has just released its latest tax plan proposals. Picture: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

‘The BEPS project is not about increasing corporate taxes.”

That’s just one of the nuggets of information in the several hundred pages of tax analysis and proposals published last week by the OECD, as part of its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project. There must be few countries in the world as interested in a public debate about tax as Ireland – the OECD’s work dominated the headlines, and not just the ...