Category: Corporate governance
The Apple Judgement
Jim Stewart 27/07/2020
The Apple Judgement (1) has been widely acclaimed as a vindication for Ireland, its tax regime and policies towards FDI. Apart from Apple itself, it is hard to find much acclaim outside Ireland. The Financial Times considers the judgement to be “a serious setback to [the Commissions] laudable efforts to curb unfair corporate tax practices …
How Businesses Can Survive the Lockdown
Paul Sweeney 01/05/2020
Many argue that bad businesses should not be supported by the state. However, if this pandemic’s lockdown lasts a long time, it is going to …
Zero hours work
Michelle O'Sullivan 16/04/2019
There has much attention on zero hours work in Ireland in recent years. Former Labour Party Minister of State for Business and Employment Ged Nash …
Privatisation Pendulum Swings Back.
Paul Sweeney 20/12/2018
In my last blog in November, we saw that privatisation is being reversed in the UK, the original home of the Thatcher ideology of “rolling back the …
Now inevitable that public money will be wasted on rural broadband
Donal Palcic, Eoin Reeves 29/11/2018
The decision to continue with the procurement of the national broadband plan (NBP) is not a surprise as the main findings of the review by Peter …
A digital tax is coming
13/11/2018
The EU proposal to introduce a form of digital services tax (DST), that is, a tax on the sales revenues of firms whose main activities are in the …
Finally, the Privatisation Pendulum Swings Back.
Paul Sweeney 09/11/2018
Trends in Economics Trends in economics swing one way and then back. The privatisation trend that begun in the 1980s in the UK is finally swinging …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …