Category: Taxation
What cutting corporation tax to 10% would mean for the UK
Richard Murphy 26/10/2016
Richard Murphy: Some of the smaller economic brains inside the Brexit camp are suggesting that the UK should cut its corporation tax rate to 10 per …
Corporate Social Responsibility -the first casualty in Apple ‘truth fight’
Colm O'Doherty 17/09/2016
Colm O'Doherty: Viewed through a Corporate Social Responsibility lens the behaviour of the Irish State and Apple does not stand up to scrutiny. …
On Apple tax, State must side with its citizens
Paul Sweeney 05/09/2016
Paul Sweeney: It is widely agreed that globalisation has bought immense benefits. But it is also recognised that these benefits are not equally …
The “Sharing” Economy is based on a Fissured Workplace
Paul Sweeney 10/08/2016
Paul Sweeney: Uber and Airbnb are not the Sharing Economy. Instead, they represent a rapid increase in the “Fissured Workplace”. This …
Has the OECD abandoned its neo-liberal taxation policies?
Paul Sweeney 27/07/2016
Paul Sweeney: The OECD has relentlessly pursued a neo-liberal taxation policy. It seldom uses the word taxation without the appendage “burden” …
Brexit, Ireland and economic policy
03/07/2016
James Stewart: Brexit marks a fundamental change in how we think about the EU and our relations with our closest neighbour. Advice on what should be …
The score at half time: OECD 7, Tax Avoidance ??
16/09/2014
Today the OECD announced the deliverables on seven of their fifteen planned actions to tackle global corporate tax avoidance. (for background, see …
Thomas Piketty in The Financial Times and Tax Transparency
Nat O'Connor 26/05/2014
Nat O'Connor: It's an old stereotype that you can tell who are the serious left-wing economists by whether or not they read The Financial Times. The …
OECD and tax avoidance: the story so far ...
02/04/2014
In a webcast from Paris this afternoon, the OECD updated the world on progress on the BEPS project to date. Pascal Saint-Amans stressed the process …
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Nat O'Connor
Nat O’Connor is a member of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences (IRiSS) and a …
Sinead Pembroke
Dr Sinéad Pembroke is a research fellow at the School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity …
Michelle Maher
Dr Michelle Maher completed her PhD on the Irish pension system in 2016 at Maynooth …