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    This £20m cheque is an historic turning point

    13 January 2013 We need to open up the tax affairs of the FTSE 100 and pursue avoiders more rapidly As a result of what we have discovered about the…

    Time called on permissive tax society

    13 January 2013 A reluctance to lay down the law created a lost generation of revenue. But the times they are a-changin’, says Edward Fennell Outrage over the Savile and…

    Beware the taxman’s swoop

    13 January 2013 Households are facing the sixth austerity budget since the economy collapsed in 2008, with the government planning to announce €3.5 billion of tax hikes and spending cuts…

    Warning on tax exiles

    13 January 2013 TAX advisers to Ireland’s wealthiest people have warned the government that stricter laws on tax exiles would drive celebrities and rich business executives out of the country.…

    How it unfolded: Osborne raids benefits and pensions to plug deficit

    13 January 2013 Main points: *Benefits cut for 3 years to save £3.7 billion *Tax-free pensions cut: raises £1bn a year *3p fuel duty rise in January is scrapped *More…

    Mario Draghi: Eurozone ‘recovering faster than UK and US’

    13 January 2013 Europe’s top central banker has claimed that the public finances of eurozone governments are healing more quickly than in other advanced nations, including the United States and…

    Greece set for early Christmas present

    13 January 2013 Greece was told yesterday that it could expect payment of a further €31.5 billion of rescue loans by the end of the month, although European finance ministers…

    Music site is in tune with US investors

    13 january 2013 BALCONYTV, an Irish internet company, has got $750,000 (€606,000) in investment from three US venture capital companies following a start-up boot camp in Copenhagen. The investment by…

    Social climbing

    13 january 2013 C OME here and I will show you some magic,” urged Ronan O’Malley, founder and chief executive of Galway-based Fixational, brandishing an iPad. “You can change the…

    Melly lines up Adare Manor

    13 january 2013 POWERSCOURT Capital Partners, the venture capital firm headed up by Sean Melly, is trying to assemble a consortium of investors to take over Adare Manor, a five-star…

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