Taoiseach Enda Kenny has pledged to support moves by world leaders to overhaul the rules of business taxation, an iniative designed to stamp out aggre(...)

British Prime Minister David Cameron chairs an EU/US trade discussion with EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso; US President Barack Obama; German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

The sign by the main road into the Lough Erne resort said it all: “Obama in Fermanagh, we’re putting the spuds on.” For his Russian counterpart, the m(...)

US president Barack Obama reacts as the sun comes out as he works alongside Britain’s prime minister David Cameron and students on a school project about the G8 summit during a visit to the Enniskillen Integrated Primary School yesterday. Photograph: Reuters

World leaders meeting at the G8 summit in Co Fermanagh have called for flexibility in fiscal policy as they seek to overcome weak prospects for the gl(...)

Apple chief executive  Tim Cook appearing  before a US Senate  committee  in  May. Rather than apologise for managing Apple in a way that reduced its tax bill to staggeringly low levels, Mr Cook  almost seemed surprised that the panel did not want to congratulate him for doing his job so well. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

Ethics and business are uneasy bed fellows at the best of times. Most business people would consider themselves to be ethical, but many act in ways th(...)

Jim Rohr of PNC Financial Services Group claims that there is no real appetite in the Obama administration to reform the way US corporations are taxed

The fall-out for Ireland of controversy about the amount of tax paid by Apple and other US multinationals will be muted, according to one of America’s(...)

It is a news story reminiscent of a Philip K Dick novel: a secret data mining project by one of the world’s superpowers, covertly gathering and storin(...)

Facebook said it received between 9,000 and 10,000 US requests for user data in the second half of 2012. Photograph: Reuters

Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the US government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they re(...)

“Instead of using the Patriot Act, we should use the rules which have been drawn up. We have a formal channel, the MLA (Mutual Legal Assistance agreement),” EU vice-president Viviane Reding said in Dublin yesterday.  Photograph: Getty Images

The United States should use existing legal frameworks to request European citizens’ data for criminal and terrorist investigations, EU vice-president(...)

All eyes on Big Brother: the NSA is building an apparatus that can watch anybody who communicates digitally. Photograph: Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters

In the late 18th century the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham conceived of a prison from which the watchman could secretly monitor the inmates. It w(...)

Edward Kleinbard, professor of law at the University of Southern California, addressed the House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee.

The use of offshore Irish companies by tech giant Apple to avoid billions of dollars in US taxes came under scrutiny again on Capitol Hill as a congre(...)

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