Double Irish is on borrowed time The Irish government announced in its 2015 Budget the abolition of the double-Irish structure and its intention to introduce an income-based system for the taxation of intellectual property, which it... By Ralph Cunningham October 16 2014
Time is up for the double Irish The Irish government announced in its 2015 Budget today the abolition of the so-called double-Irish structure and its intention to introduce an income-based system for the taxation of intellectual property,... By Ralph Cunningham October 13 2014
EU and OECD move forward on administrative coooperation directive and Common Reporting ... Fifty countries, including 26 of the EU’s 28 member states, though not the US, have signed up to be early adopters of the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), the instrument unveiled... By Ralph Cunningham October 09 2014
Ireland produces guidance notes for FATCA implementation The Revenue Commissioners in Dublin have published guidance notes on America’s Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), giving financial institutions in Ireland more information about how they should comply with... By Ralph Cunningham October 02 2014
OECD unveils plan for 2014/2015 BEPS work The OECD is getting straight back to work on base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS). By Ralph Cunningham October 01 2014
Taxpayers feel loss of key IRS figures The impact on companies of a string of senior-level departures from the Internal Revenue Service in the US earlier this year got another airing during the dispute resolution and controversy... By Ralph Cunningham September 30 2014
Taxpayers feel loss of key IRS figures The impact on companies of a string of senior-level departures from the Internal Revenue Service in the US earlier this year got another airing during the dispute resolution and controversy... By Ralph Cunningham September 28 2014
G20 tax agenda is not all about BEPS The G20’s finance ministers have outlined their plans to minimise global tax avoidance and evasion, which are not only about completing the work of the BEPS Action Plan on time... By Ralph Cunningham September 25 2014
ONE adds to pressure on G20 to act against tax evasion and other illegal financial flows The ONE campaign describes corruption involving developing countries as the $1 trillion scandal and says the G20 must implement measures such as automatic information exchange (AIE) and the transparent publication... By Ralph Cunningham September 02 2014
UN survey calls for more tax cooperation in Asia A UN body has highlighted the prospects of tax harmonisation and the elimination of tax competition in Asia-Pacific as methods for helping countries in the region to increase the amount... By Ralph Cunningham August 28 2014