Tax

Tom Maguire: With corporate tax risk comes real legislative opportunity for the state

We need to make our tax system as attractive as it can be to ensure that the next company that goes super-nova starts its journey here

Despite major international tax initiatives, Ireland's corporate tax (CT) receipts have continued to grow

The Parliamentary Budget office’s website page explains itself as an independent and specialist unit within the Houses of the Oireachtas Service that is a key source of economic and budgetary intelligence. It recently published an analysis of corporation tax revenue growth which highlights the risks behind that tax head.

We’ll get into some of those risks in a moment but let’s set the scene with some of the report’s statistics. It notes that despite major ...