Marks and Spencer is in the spotlight for its tax practices. (Photograph Dara Mac Dónaill/THE IRISH TIMES)

Retailer Marks & Spencer has become the latest in a line of UK based companies to have the spot-light shone on its tax-practices. Acc(...)

Google’s European, Middle East and African sales headquarters on Barrow Street, Dublin. Photograph: Paul McErlane/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The ongoing political controversy over the level of tax being paid by Google in its major European markets could have serious implications for (...)

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan rings the bell prior to an economic and financial affairs meeting yesterday, at the EU headquarters in Brussels.

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan yesterday defended Ireland’s corporate tax regime, following a meeting of EU finance minis(...)

British chancellor George Osborne: likely to argue that countries should be given discretion on how to apply the bail-in rules. Photograph: PA

EU finance ministers meeting today for their penultimate gathering under the Irish presidency of the EU council face a packed agenda. Fi(...)

[From left] German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, British chancellor George Osborne, IMF managing director  Christine Lagarde and Canada’s finance minister Jim Flaherty at the Global Investment Conference 2013 in London. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/Reuters

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble signalled support for an easing of Europe’s austerity drive as he prepared to face pressure from glob(...)

Chancellor George Osborne: some commentators accused him of creating a government-backed sub-prime mortgage sector. Photograph: Chris Harris/The Times/PA Wire

A nurse and a former Queen’s Guard have become the first couple to take up the government’s help-to-buy scheme, unveiled(...)

A Goldman Sachs trader

The British Inland Revenue unlawfully agreed a deal with Goldman Sachs nearly three years ago which let bankers escape (...)

Tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands will work more closely with Britain and other European countries to fight tax evasion, Britis(...)

A billboard for Ukip in the 2009 European Parliament elections.  “The growing English nationalism affecting the Conservatives and the buoyant Eurosceptic Ukip competing with it are defined against Europe.” Photograph:   Oli Scarff/Getty Images

George Osborne was let off the hook on Thursday by figures showing the UK economy grew by 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of this year. Had t(...)

A container ship is seen at Southampton Docks in southern England. Britain’s economy dodged a return to recession and grew faster than expected in the first three months of this year, a relief for finance minister George Osborne. Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters

Britain’s economy avoided a triple- dip recession in the first quarter with expansion that exceeded economists’ forecasts and will provide welc(...)

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