Joe Tynan

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Facebook HQ in Dublin: Trade tensions between Europe and the US may increase with French tax initiative. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
French move on digital tax ups the ante

France’s decision to strike out unilaterally and press ahead with plans for a 3 per cent digital tax on Facebook, Google and other US technology giant(...)

US president Donald Trump: Washington has threatend to retaliate with sanctions. Photograph: Evan Vucci/ AP
Digital tax could reduce Ireland’s corporate take

The imposition of an EU-wide digital tax on Facebook, Google and other US technology giants has the potential to reduce Ireland’s corporate tax take,(...)

PwC partner Joe Tynan says “some improvements” to Ireland’s system of taxing corporations. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Ireland has fourth most efficient business tax system in the world, says PwC

A global study of corporate tax systems has found that the Republic has the most efficient system for paying business taxes in the European Union and (...)

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe: emphasised the need to safeguard our progress and protect against future shocks and global threats. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill/The Irish Times
Budget 2019 contains few surprises and business is happy

Ireland’s economy continues to grow strongly and is forecast to be the fastest growing economy in the euro zone for the coming years. Minister for Fi(...)

Catherine Moroney, head of business banking at AIB, at the PwC/Irish Times event.
Fianna Fáil wants housing, health and company supports at centre of budget

Greater support for indigenous companies and progress on housing and health are core issues that Fianna Fáil wants to see addressed in Budget 2019, th(...)

Some 40 per cent of respondents of a PwC survey specifically singled out housing as a bottleneck in the economy that could potentially frustrate their business plans. Photograph: Alan Betson
Nearly half of Irish business leaders see housing as impediment to growth

Nearly half of Irish business leaders see the lack of affordable housing as a key impediment to expanding their businesses, a survey by consultancy fi(...)

Getting ready for the PwC Irish Times Tax Summit: Liam Kavanagh, managing director of The Irish Times; Doone O’Doherty, tax partner at PwC; Joe Tynan, head of tax at PwC; and Ciarán Hancock, business editor at The Irish Times. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Tax Summit to address budget, Brexit and corporate issues

Pascal Saint-Amans, a director at the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the PwC Irish Times(...)

Dublin Chamber chief executive Mary Rose Burke. Photograph: Chris Bellew/Fennell Photography
‘We’re at a crunch point now for the Irish economy’

Having climbed back into the top 10 on IMD’s world competitiveness rankings in 2017, Ireland has now fallen back to 12th. The last time Ireland slippe(...)

Squeezed middle: are those likely to do best out of Budget 2019 the middle-income earners? Photograph: iStockphoto/Getty
Will Ireland's ‘squeezed middle’ get any relief in Budget 2019?

Can the so-called squeezed middle expect any significant “unsqueezing” in Budget 2019? Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has promised they will ben(...)

Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance and the Department of Finance Chief Economist, John McCarthy at the announcement of the Summer Economic Statement. Photograph: Tom Honan.
Economic statement a ‘well crafted exercise in expectation management’

Mixed reaction came from business and economic commentators as Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, revealed his Summer Economic Statement. The Go(...)

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