Dominic Coyle

Dominic Coyle

Deputy Business Editor

Dominic Coyle is deputy business editor at The Irish Times, managing a team of 12 writers and editors providing business coverage throughout the paper and in dedicated business supplements across six days of the weeks. He also writes regularly for the paper, predominantly on pharmaceuticals, medical devices, pensions and personal finance, including a popular reader’s Q&A on personal finance matters.

Ardagh chairman and chief executive Paul Coulson, hailed the benefits of scale and diversity as the company reported strong earnings Thursday despite falling sales at its US glass business. Photograph: Frank Miller
Shares in Paul Coulson’s Ardagh jump on target-beating results

Strong performance in metals and European glass operations offsets falling sales and rising costs at North American glass business

HiberGene chief executive Brendan Farrell said the company was halfway through its latest fundraising round.
Irish firm HiberGene Diagnostics unveils new rapid test for meningitis

Company raising €5 million for product development and global commercialisation

KBC, or IIB Homeloans as it was called back then, did advertise a promise in late 2006 that its “standard practice” was to transfer everyone on a fixed rate to a tracker mortgage at the end of the fixed term as a default
Should KBC have offered me a tracker option in 2009?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Railing against tax, IPO payday and global ambitions for a Carlow firm

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

The relief from capital gains of the sale of someone’s principal private residence is one of the best known tax reliefs
Brother facing CGT bill after family home burned down

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Photograph: iStock
Price pressure keeps nine new drugs from Irish patients

Cancer drugs feature in list of therapies waiting HSE approval on cost grounds

Ireland’s pension liability as a percentage of GDP is low relative to other countries, reflecting Ireland’s comparatively young population.
Irish pension liabilities top €430bn

Ireland less exposed to pension liabilities than other EU states, CSO figures show

Artist’s impression of new MSD site at Swords, expanded to 43,000sq m from previous 31,000sq m plant.
Pharma giant seeks planning for Swords plant

Biotech facility to employ 350 on repurposed and expanded Dublin site

Former INM chairman Leslie Buckley, who is reported in court documents to have passed on confidential information to INM shareholder Denis O’Brien about communications minister Denis Naughten’s plans to refer the Celtic Media merger to the regulator. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
INM and the minister, budget insight, the iPhone skewing growth figures and Ireland becomes a Facebook friend

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Approved Retirement Funds were introduced as an alternative to transferring a pension fund into an annuity on retirement. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire
Revenue ties cross-border tax on ARFs up in knots

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Any young couple looking to put aside money to save a deposit will be grateful for help. Photograph: Chris Ison/PA Wire
Is there any issue with giving son an apartment rent-free?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Alkermes reckons more than eight million people in the US alone suffer from a major depressive disorder. File photograph: Getty Images
Alkermes secures US watchdog U-turn on depression drug

Food and Drug Administration accepts filing from Irish pharma group fortnight after refusal

Nigel Aston, head of defined contribution global proposition and strategy at asset manager State Street Global Advisors.
Using the right language is key to pension plan success

Government plans for auto-enrolment depend on quality of pitch to workers

Immunotherapies have been a major focus of cancer research in recent years
Dublin company Inflection Biosciences signs research deal with Trinity College

Start-up working on way to block spread of cancer cells in patients with aggressive breast cancer

Dr Michael O’Neill, director of research and development at Inflection Biosciences, Darren Cunningham, chief executive at Inflection and Prof Bryan Hennessy, senior clinical lecturer at RCSI and consultant medical oncologist. Photograph: Julien Behal
Irish company to showcase ‘breakthrough’ breast cancer drug

Inflection Biosciences seeking phase I testing for new therapy targeting aggressive cancer

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is surrounded by members of the media as he arrives to testify before a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees joint hearing regarding the company’s use and protection of user data. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters
Defending Facebook, Guinness home and what to do with strategic defaulters

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Outside the Capitol in Washington, DC, protest group Avaaz set up 100 cutouts of Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg with the words “Fix Facebook” on them. Photograph: Al Drago/Bloomberg
Facebook shares surge as US senators question Zuckerberg

Social media giant’s chief denies Facebook ‘wilfully blind’ to abuse

Capital losses as a rule are offset against any capital gains arising in the same year. If that is not sufficient to offset them fully, they are set against any gains in future years
Capital gains, losses and writing a will

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

If you have already paid tax elsewhere – the US in this case – it can be offset against any Irish tax bill, but you still have to notify the Revenue by filling out a tax return
US company shares have landed us in hot water

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Getting out the vote: Advertising agency BBDO has won the Referendum Commission account to explain the upcoming referendum and encourage people to register and vote. Photograph:Niall Carson/PA Wire
Referendum ads; Ibec outlook and what business travellers really need in a hotel

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Jake Carter and Karen Byrne in RTÉ’s successful series Dancing with the Stars, which is made in Ardmore Studios. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Ardmore and Troy team up to lure major movie projects

Troy shareholders’ €6m takeover of Bray studio offers more space to filmmakers

Troy Studios boss Siún Ní Raghallaigh. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Fledgling Limerick film studios flying high

Troy Studios has set up in former Dell factory to bring big productions to the area

Border guards work at a container port in Qingdao, Shandong province, China. China will place 25 per cent tariffs on a list of 106 US goods, in a retaliatory action against the US’s new tariff on Chinese products. Photograph: Yu Fangping/EPA
Trumping trade tariffs, thirsty business and getting a fix on privacy

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Richard Pops, chairman and chief executive officer of Alkermes. Photograph: Patrick Fallon/Bloomberg
Alkermes shares dive 22% as FDA refuses to review drug

US regulator says more clinical trials needed before considering Irish drug group’s depression treatment

For all the emphasis on centralised lending decision and algorithms, there is still a place in banks for personal discretion. Photograph: Alan Betson
Ulster Bank U-turn on mortgage application

Q&A: Best bet is to appeal to bank’s financial benefit, not its sense of fairness

Friends Provident shares were worth 229 pence sterling when the insurer floated in 2001.
Piecing together the jigsaw of son’s Friends Provident shares

Q&A: Policyholders received shares in insurer when it demutualised in 2001

Silhouette of laptop user is seen next to a screen projection of Apple logo. Apple has released a software update across all platforms to bring its services fully into line with the new GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rules. PHOTOGRAPH: Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Apple software update puts privacy in the frontline

Tech group says aim of update is to help customers understand how data will be used and update privacy options ahead of GDPR

Keytruda producer MSD has announced plans to invest in a new biotech facility at its decommissioned Swords plant. When completed in 2021, the Swords plant will be dedicated to manufacturing Keytruda, providing 350 jobs. Photograph: Robbie Reynolds
New lung cancer drug approved by HSE

Keytruda to be available to lung cancer patients in Ireland from April

Prof Jonathan Haskel, the author of “Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy”, who spoke at Ibec’s Business Leaders conference where Ibec chief executive Danny McCoy warned that the economy was losing competitiveness faster than during the Celtic Tiger years. Photograph: Conor McCabe
Moneylending grows; Competitiveness alert: Permanent TSB caution on split mortgages

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

In 2006, banks had still not woken to the looming disaster that was tracker mortgages: it was only in 2008 that they started withdrawing them.
Did three-month fix cost me access to a tracker mortgage?

Q&A: Three-month fixed-rate option raises questions about advice received

Dancing with the Stars: filming at Ardmore of the 2017 series of the RTÉ show. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Ardmore Studios sold to chairman of rival Troy Studios

Historic Bray studio, home of ‘Dancing with the Stars’, sold to Joe Devine group

More than 6,000 homeowners have availed of the Help to Buy scheme to date. Photograph: Alan Betson
Revenue chases ‘handful’ of Help to Buy applicants after audit

First-time buyers who exchanged contracts before scheme started but then claimed relief will have to repay money

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has taken a $7.4 billion hit to his fortune, on paper, as the company’s shares slide close to 9 per cent in two days amid the Cambridge Analytica crisis. Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images
Brexit bill; Facebook woes; digital tax; and more court hearings for the Quinn family

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

As the sale of a principal private residence is not liable for tax under capital gains, the corollary is that you cannot use it to accumulate a loss that could be set against other gains.
No tax break on loss made selling family home

Q&A: Sale of principal private residence is main exemption from capital gains law

A person must be resident in Canada to reap the benefits of the Tax-Free Savings Account, a structure that was first introduced there in 2009.
Canadian tax-free savings caught in tax net

Q&A: Savings account liable for tax in both jurisdictions on return to Ireland

Avectas co-founder and chief scientific officer Dr Shirley O’Dea (left) with head of business development Dr Gillian Hendy, and CEO and co-founder Michael Maguire. Photograph: Fennell Photography
Maynooth team secures €2.1m EU funding for cancer therapy

Funding boost for Avectas team developing breakthrough approach at medicine’s cutting edge

Permanent TSB is back in the black for the first time in a decade. Photograph: Alan Betson
PTSB back to black and direct flights to China

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

The EU is looking to impose a temporary tax on digital sales as an interim measure, pending agreement on a new EU-wide tax regime. If successful, it will hit Ireland’s tax revenues. Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images
EU tax attack; Developers in court; and a bad day at the office for Greencore

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Tracker mortgage query: if you get nowhere with the bank, you can approach the Financial Services Ombudsman with your case. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Confusing letter from Bank of Ireland on tracker mortgage

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

I’d have taken the arm off any lender who was offering a tracker at less than one percentage point over the prevailing ECB rate
Is the bank being reasonable over mortgage change?

Dominic Coyle answers your personal finance questions.

EU trade commissioner Ceclilia Malmström was left frustrated at attempts to tie down an exemption over the weekend from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo
Irish business in US; tariffs; and the future of tech at SXSW

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Setanta Asset Management took the worst hit last month, giving up 2.7 per cent.
Irish pension funds underwater for 2018

Funds almost 1 per cent down on average in 2018 following stock-market correction

Tom O’Mahony, chief executive of Origin, He said the first half had shown “favourable activity levels on farms”. Photograph: Eric Luke
Agri-services group Origin delivers 12.6% rise in profit

Company says performance in traditionally quiet first period sets foundation for growth

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary has become the ninth Irish member of the Forbes Billionaires List.
O’Leary’s fortune; taxing times; and the likely takeout price for Smurfit Kappa

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

A reader’s house is too big for them. They would like to downsize, but they don’t want to sell. Photograph: Frank Miller
Can I claim my rent against rental income?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

By 2009, all the banks had woken up to the reality of the unsustainable rates they had been offering on trackers. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Have I a case over a top-up mortgage with no tracker offer?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

The new Edwards Lifesciences plant in Shannon, due to be operational in 2020, will be the company’s largest manufacturing investment in the EU. Photograph: iStock
Edwards Lifesciences to create 600 jobs in Shannon

Medical equipment company plans €80 million investment in new plant

Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection Regina Doherty, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe, announce major changes to pensions in Ireland, on Wednesday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Pension reform plan wins broad backing from business community

Universal welcome for auto-enrolment of workers in a pension scheme, though Ibec worries about implementation

The Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty said it was increasingly clear that people in the private sector are not doing enough to plan for retirement. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
Almost all workers to be enrolled in pension scheme, State vows

‘Increasingly clear that people in the private sector are not saving enough, or at all’

We have been gifted a garden site valued under €310,000 and under one acre by my fiancée’s parents to build a house for us. Photograph: iStock
Building back home when we’re living in the UK

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

PTSB broke out the numbers on its portfolio of non-performing loans, Project Glas, as it battles efforts to block their sale. Photograph: Alan Betson
PTSB’s bad loans, Elysian Tower sale, foodie heaven and Irish business on the export trail

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

We don’t yet have the full details of what is happening after 2020. Photograph: iStock
State pensions outlook still unclear after 2020

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

There are good reasons for having a will: most importantly, they provide legal clarity over precisely what a person wants to do with their possessions after the die
Do my elderly parents need to make a will?

Q&A: An only child wonders if a will is necessary if she is to inherit her parents’ estate

ReActiv8 is designed to treat chronic low back pain
Mainstay Medical raises €30m from new share placing

Company says five centres in Germany and Ireland have implanted patients with ReActiv8

The food sector and wages for unskilled workers are particularly vulnerable under Brexit, warns a new report
Brexit woes; 550 new jobs; Permo’s bad loans; and Fallon & Byrne for Dundrum

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

MSD’s site at Drynam Road Swords where it has just announced plans for a new biologics manufacturing plant. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
MSD to create 350 jobs at new Dublin plant

Biotech unit to manufacture blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda will be based on site of old women’s healthcare products business

“The tracker mortgage crisis has been one of a litany of shameful behaviours by Irish lenders that spend millions on marketing budgets telling us how much they care for us as customers.” Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Not every tracker mortgage refusal will yield redress

Q&A: EBS terms and conditions critical for mortgage given for affordable housing

Photograph: Getty
I left the workforce in 1989 to have children. What pension can I expect?

Q&A: Doing the sums on new State pension rules

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has promised that no one would be left worse off under the new pension arrangements. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
With only 10 years’ PRSI, will I be worse off on retirement next year?

Q&A: I believe I should get an Irish contributory pension of €233.60 a week

Revenue-sharing rules mean information about your partner’s property ownership and mortgage are available to Irish tax authorities. photograph: Getty Images
Youthful purchase abroad disbars couple from first-time buyer status

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Pensions reform: Regina Doherty announced the changes last month. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Minister’s pension reforms to benefit far fewer women than expected

Credit for years as home carer available only alongside 520 full PRSI payments

The Syndesi Therapeutics drug is directly targeting dementia, the core symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA
Irish VC backs Belgian start-up investigating dementia therapy

Fountain Healthcare participates in €17m funding round for Syndesi Therapeutics

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty: new pension rules will benefit women who gave up work to care for their children. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Mum with limited PRSI stamps loses out again under new pension rules?

Q&A: Failure to pay 2012 imposed minimum of 520 stamps locks her out of pension fix

Eir has pulled the plug on its bid for the National Broadband Plan, throwing the whole project into doubt.
Eir hangs up; Bartra’s social housing; Irish wave energy and the businss of sport

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Many retired workers have not been able to access the State pension until they turn 66, which has forced them to sign on for jobseekers’ benefit. Photograph: Frank Miller
State may force employers to drop mandatory retirement ages

Raising State pension age poses ‘major income challenges’ for workers, says Ictu

Mercer says that to encourage greater savings, pensions need to be made more personal and accessible and to make greater use of digital tools. Photograph: Getty Images
Workers ‘increasingly worried’ about outliving their pension savings

Only one in five Irish people are confident they can fund retirement to last up to 20 years

Joan McLoughlin, Pensioners for Equality (centre) with Maureen Fahy, Irish Country Women’s Association and Justin Moran of Age Action at a press conference on the 2012 pension cuts. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Pension changes not just turning the clock back to 2012

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

My understanding is that anyone retiring between now and 2020 will have the choice of using the existing system or the new total contributions system – whichever is more beneficial to them financially. Photograph: Getty Images
Are new State pension rules just a fix for marriage bar women?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Dr Hubert Lim, who has joined Neuromod as chief scientific officer, is a researcher at the cutting edge of auditory neuroscience, neuromodulation and neuroplasticity.
Neuromod hires research expert in move to bring tinnitus device to market

Irish medtech start-up seeking to commercialise non-invasive device for condition

Trade talks, tech giant lobbying and death of a retail giant

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Minister for Employment Affairs & Social Protection Regina Doherty, centre, with Helen McDonald, principal, and Jim Duggan, assistant secretary of the department, in Government Buildings. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Most marriage-bar women lose out under pension reform

Changes announced by Regina Doherty will impact those eligible for pension since late 2012

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty: new system comes into place on March 30th. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Q&A: What do reforms of the State contributory pension mean?

Among the changes are a Total Contributions Approach, and Homecaring Credits

Cate Blanchett, goodwill ambassador, United Nations high commissioner for refugees, and Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist at New York Times, speak during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Photograph: Denis Balibouse / REUTERS
Davos voices, planning in Dublin and Ikea eyes another south Dublin location

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

As the Group A CAT threshold is currently €310,000, does a tax liability only arise on the excess amount of €50,000?
Am I excluded from the dwelling house tax exemption?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Each parent can give up to €3,000 to a person in a given tax year. That means your two parents can legitimately gift you up to €6,000 between them with no tax liability, either for you or your parents. Photograph: Getty Images
Parents have to acknowledge gift for mortgage applicants

Q&A: I received money from my parents under the small gift exemption and want to put it towards a deposit. Is it necessary for the(...)

Will old family home cost us tax if we hold on to it?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Up to 4,000 homes are waiting for approval under the Government’s new fast-track planning channel for large residential projects. Photograph: Alan Betson
Fast-tracking 4,000 homes; change at T2; clock ticking for Carillion

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

The list of registered contractors is central to any claim you make under Help-to-Buy unless you are applying under the self-build provisions. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Contractor not an issue for self-builds under Help to Buy

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

A woman picks up a basket at the Aldi store. Aldi is accusing rivals Tesco and SuperValu of working deliberately to obstruct its expansion using planning objections. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters
Supermarket wars; making sense of housing data; taxing pensions

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Rent-a-room relief applies only to people who are letting out a room in their main, or only, family home. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Can I claim rent-a-room relief on son’s college flat?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle answers your personal finance questions

Volkswagen remained Irish car buyers favourite marque and diesel their fuel option of choice in 2017even with lower sales and despite the fallout of Dieselgate. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein / Getty Images
Selling debt; falling car sales; and a spanking new superferry

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Listen to the Revenue people tell you – they’re the experts. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Must you file a CGT return if no tax is due?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

There is a double taxation agreement between the United States and Ireland that specifically covers the issue of inheritance tax. Photograph: Eric Luke
Is Irish tax due on US inheritance?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Ryanair faces disruption today on a number of flights out of Germany due to a four-hour stoppage by local pilots. Closer to home, it is nursing its bruises after losing a high profile defamation case. Paul Faith /AFP/Getty Images
Ryanair’s double whammy; Liberty eyes Vodafone deal

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

All change once again at Eir –- for the seventh time in less than two decades – as flamboyant French entrepreneur Xavier Niel is on the verge of taking a two-thirds stake in the business.
Ryanair meets pilots; VHI eyes move for hospital; all change at Eir

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Can I get my ex-partner’s name off my mortgage?

Q&A: My ex-partner is thinking of moving back to Ireland and wants to buy a house. He asked me: ‘what’s the story?’

The dicing and slicing of Fyffes shares makes it a real challenge to sort out what you may or may not owe the Revenue. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
What do I need to sort out tax on Fyffes shares?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

The first whiskey to be produced in Connacht in over 100 years is coming of age this week at Drumshanbo’s Shed Distillery in Leitrim.
Negative equity fears ease, delivery issue for business, whiskey returns to Connacht

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Ryanair’s concession of union recognition – albeit with conditions – will likely see pilot strike threat withdrawn and showcases the airline’s ability to act decisively in the face of fast-changing events. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Ryanair turns the tables with union recognition

Concession to ‘save’ Christmas showcases ability of airline to adjust to fast-changing market realities

It’s not getting any easier for Ryanair on the industrial relations front as German pilots last night warned that they could strike at any time
Government files Microsoft submission; Ryanair pilots in revolt; S&P chooses Dublin

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

The complication in cross-border inheritances between Ireland and the UK are the differing rules on how tax is applied. Photograph: iStock
Irish tax and UK inheritances

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Mainstay Medical’s ReActiv8 device for the treatment of chronic low back pain
Mainstay Medical passes ‘important milestone’ in clinical trials

Firm aims to bring its new therapy for chronic lower back pain to key US market

What applies in one jurisdiction can be very different than the rules in another. Photograph: iStock
Can gift to son while based in Hong Kong affect tax in Ireland?

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

The study of 26 companies with defined-benefit pension schemes said their combined deficit had jumped from €2.6 billion in 2015 to €3.6 billion at the end of last year.
Pensions deficit in Ireland’s largest companies grows almost 40%

Diageo, CIÉ and Bank of Ireland have worst deficits in cash terms, study finds

The Irish Times is acquiring Landmark Media. which includes Irish Examiner, Waterford News & Star, Western People and Kildare Nationalist. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Media merger; commercial property loophole closes; and planning for 2018

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Aryzta to raise €84m from La Rousse Foods sale and Picard dividend

Irish restaurant food supplies business bought by Centra and SuperValu owner Musgrave

Poland will line up against Ireland and Apple in the appeal over whether the US tech giant owes €13 billion in back taxes. Photograph: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto
Business delivers for tax coffers; Poland targets Ireland in Apple appeal

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

By taking the property now as a gift, you are leaving yourself open to tax that you would avoid perfectly legally if you and your mum waited for your to receive the property by way of inheritance.
Q&A: Do I pay capital gains tax on ‘gifted’ home?

Dominic Coyle: Short-term solution could lead to a longer-term tax bill

Oxfam campaigners outside the Department of Finance earlier in 2017 to call on the Government to implement transparency where large companies make profit and pay tax. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Ireland actively facilitates firms in avoiding tax, report finds

Debt and Development Coalition says State imposes tax losses on developing nations

“The Citizens Information website says you can nominate your spouse as the attorney, but this seems impossible.” Photograph: iStock
Catch-22 on creating an enduring power of attorney in favour of my wife

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

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