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Brexit, Income Tax and the Social Market Economy
Nat O'Connor 21/04/2017
Various lobbyists have used the opportunity of Brexit to repeat their frequent calls for Ireland to lower its income tax rates. For example, EY reported in the Irish Independent 'Slash income tax or Brexit will be wasted' 3 April 2017). Minster Noonan has indicated his desire to do so (24 Feb 2017, Irish Times) and Minister Varadkar is presented …
Bill Gates Proposes a Tax on Robots
Paul Sweeney 22/02/2017
There has been a lot of media discussion recently about the increasing possibility of robots displacing workers. When Bill Gates, founder of …
Should judges be required to publicly declare their interests?
Nuala Haughey 15/11/2016
Should judges should be obliged to make annual declarations of interests – such as property, gifts, land, and shares – in much the same way as …
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” …
Taoiseach appears to seek Increased Public Investment, as does OECD.
Paul Sweeney 13/06/2016
Paul Sweeney: The leak in the Irish Times (13th June 2016) that the Taoiseach has written to Mr Juncker, President of the EU Commisson, on the need …
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 …
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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