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4 Dec 19
Ireland is on track for record corporation tax receipts this year, although the finance minister has warned the surge will not last forever.
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2 Dec 19
Ireland’s sovereign credit rating has been increased making Irish government bonds more attractive, according to the country’s National Treasury Management Agency.
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11 Oct 19
The Irish government has allocated more than €1bn in its Budget for 2020 to be spent in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
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2 Oct 19
Boris Johnson’s ‘two borders’ plan for Northern Ireland after Brexit appeared to be rejected by Ireland and the EU before he even made his speech.
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13 Aug 19
Public debt in Ireland rose to €206bn in 2018 - 104% of gross national income and among the largest of OECD member countries.
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12 Jul 19
Ireland’s economy has continued to outperform the rest of the European Union, despite fears over Brexit, growing 8.2% last year and up 2.4% in the first quarter of this year, according to official...
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18 Jun 19
Ireland has become the latest European country to put forward ambitious proposals to tackle climate change.
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17 Jun 19
A ‘no-deal’ Brexit poses the main risk to Ireland’s economy, which is “uniquely vulnerable” to events in the United Kingdom, the IMF has warned.
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2 May 19
Ireland has launched a fund to help island states in the Pacific cope with the impact of rising seas.
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19 Nov 18
The Irish prime minister has pledged to cut incomes taxes paid by average earners.
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15 Jun 18
Ireland has been dubbed the biggest tax haven in the world in a study that claims that foreign multinationals shifted €90bn of corporate profits to the country in 2015.
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11 Jun 18
Ireland’s biggest accountancy body is partnering with CIPFA to help accountants better manage public budgets in a fast-changing environment.
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5 Jan 18
Hungary and Ireland have expressed opposition to harmonise tax rules across the European Union, saying it undermines competition within the single market.
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29 Nov 17
A number of European Union member states would be blacklisted as tax havens according to the bloc’s own rules, NGOs have said.
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11 Sep 17
Ireland’s finance minister has announced Ireland will repay its outstanding IMF debt and bilateral loans from Sweden and Denmark early and in full.
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29 Jul 16
The International Monetary Fund underestimated the risks of the eurozone debt crisis and overrode its own procedures to make unsustainable loans, a key report published today has concluded.
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26 Jan 16
The European Commission's response to the financial crisis of the late 2000s was "generally weak", with measures not applied consistently and lacking in thorough scrutiny, auditors have said.
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1 Sep 15
CIPFA has backed a series of public sector governance changes proposed by the Irish government to improve transparency, but the institute also said Ireland could go further to enhance departmental...