Monday, Mar 15th 2010
It was almost inevitable. Following Kraft’s acquisition of Cadbury, the US food giant has gone back on its guarantee not to close the Cadbury plant in Somerdale with the loss of 400 jobs. According to the BBC, Cadbury employs 4,500 people in the UK. Kraft has yet to announce plans for its Bournville factory in [...]
This is the second of two articles exploring in depth the question of the impact of Ireland’s tax strategies on developing countries. The first article appeared yesterday.
In the first article in this series, I described the dominant tax consensus, and how Ireland has played the game of tax competition to attract multinational investment through the [...]
I was intending to a piece on the grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented’ proposal to flush €7 billion down the recapitalisation toilet but David McWilliams has already outlined why its a gross waste of money while John McManus has a very insightful deconstruction on why the whole thing is potentially counter-productive (if you believe that [...]
In a letter to the Irish Times on the 16th of August written in response to Denis O’Brien’s opinion piece in that paper prescribing what the Irish government should do to rectify the downturn in the economy, Macdara Doyle of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions wrote the following:
“Madam, Not even the combined [...]
There is plenty in the news today about Jim Flavin’s decision to step down as executive chairman of DCC, on the foot of :
“a new legal manoeuvre against the company by the official enforcer of corporate law, Paul Appleby, who wants the High Court to appoint inspectors to investigate how it sold a major stake [...]