July stimulus: Surprise tax cut and help-to-buy scheme expanded

Covid unemployment payment to be extended until April 2021 but closed to new applicants

Whole New Ball Game: Rugby players could test public support over pay cuts

Good luck to any player earning €500k or €200k refusing a 20% pay cut in present climate

Corporation tax ‘article of faith’ may be about to unravel

The 12.5% rate is economic faith at home but controversial to the rest of the world

Will house bought for my parents land me with a tax bill?

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Takeda overhauls Shire’s Irish structure to ease dividend payments

Pharma giant moves to make it easier for profits to be repatriated from State to Japan

Blame our troubles on the 1990s – the decade that never ended

The fallout from the decade of Blair and Clinton continues to shape today’s crises

Donohoe sets out budget surplus and debt-reduction targets

Minister warns of ‘clear and present danger’ of fall-off in corporation tax receipts

Planet Business: A world of pure reimagination

Singles joy, Disney pain and the politicians who turned company directors

You dodge capital gains but your son faces a big tax bill

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Irish tax veteran joins football super-agent Jorge Mendes’s team

Former ITI president Michael Mullins appointed to boards of Gestifute’s Dublin cog

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Insurance broker Arachas buys Galway-based Murray & Spelman

The financial services firm is chaired by former minister for finance Charlie McCreevy

Greyhound racing – is it running on borrowed time?

7,500 owners countrywide, yet last year just two fixed payment notices were served

Sean Dunne asked Bertie Ahern to help sell asset in 2010, US court told

Trial hears developer sought assistance from former taoiseach with S African resort sale

Former parliamentary assistant jailed for three years over €202,000 theft

Mark Dalton forged Ceann Comhairle’s name to steal money from housing association

‘Hey Ruby, hold her back’: An emotional Punchestown goodbye

Gold Cup win on favoured turf caps 24-year career for Kildare native Ruby Walsh

English close lead on Irish-trained horses at Cheltenham

The coarseness raging in the Brexit debates at Westminster had drifted up the M4

Ibec calls for new SSIA-type savings scheme

Complex trends in economy require fresh thinking, employers’ group chief says

Will I make a profit on the Greencore share buyback?

Rights issues and a share split complicate calculation of shareholding value

Fianna Fáil more in line with Labour than Fine Gael, says Howlin

Labour leader wants centre left alliance to negotiate future coalition as a bloc

Revenue opts not to appeal court ruling on dwelling house relief

Decision opens door for refunds but not everyone will benefit

Single, married or cohabiting: Who pays the least tax?

Not getting married could cost you more than €400,000 in extra tax over 40 years

Is the Government going for broke again?

Budgetary watchdog stops just short of accusation that recovery is being squandered

Cuts to rate of capital gains tax on way in coming years, suggests Taoiseach

Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath says Varadkar ‘going around the place like Santa Claus at the moment’

Falling short of dwelling house exemption

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Facing a CGT bill for house inherited from father back in 1993

Capital gains tax indexation up to end of 2002 takes some sting out of tax bill

Steady as she goes: Budget 2019 dodges the landmines

Donohue avoids the rabbit-from-a-hat surprises of predecessor McCreevy

Fintan O'Toole: Bad social policy makes for bad budgets

Ireland’s finances are worse than other countries in four key ways

Budget 2019 deals to be hammered out in coming days

Donohoe to hold meetings with FF to obtain assent for budget day package

Ryanair seeks tax law changes to deal with industrial relations issue

O’Leary lobbying to be allowed employ pilots and crew in European countries under local contracts

Ryanair board survives agm intact but dissatisfaction evident

Independence of long-serving board members questioned by shareholders

Former finance minister Charlie McCreevy steps down as Ryanair director

Declan McKeon, one-time partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, also steps down as director

Losing out on dwelling house relief

Q&A: Tax implications highlight importance of making a will

Reducing tax relief on contributions will not solve pension crisis, say actuaries

Society of Actuaries rejects idea for SSIA-type scheme as way to make pensions accessible

Wealthy gifted €176m worth of property tax free in 2016

Property worth more than €800m given tax free since 2011

Pat Leahy: Leo Varadkar has learnt from the Ahern playbook

The Strategic Communications Unit is blurring boundaries in a very familiar way

‘Bungalow Blitz’ another nail in the coffin for towns and villages

The Government must not deviate from plans to restrict one-off rural housing

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

Q&A: Dominic Coyle

Central Bank misses own target; why can’t we get spending right? Big issues for Big Tech

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Government vows financial caution, but it will be hard

State needs to keep eye on wider picture even as tax revenues hit record €50.7bn

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