French view on corporate tax, credit bureau to close, and house buying tips

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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, introduces the  lunar lander “Blue Moon”. Photograph: Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, introduces the lunar lander “Blue Moon”. Photograph: Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via Getty Images

The French minister for European affairs Clément Beaune has appealed to Ireland to reassess its opposition to a global minimum corporate tax rate, in a letter published in The Irish Times and in an interview with Lara Marlowe.

The Irish Credit Bureau, which owned by a group of current and former lenders in the State, has informed users it plans to close down by the year end, triggering concerns among some non-bank lenders that resulting creditworthiness "data gaps" may affect small-business lending. Joe Brennan has the details.

The Government should extend its main pandemic wage-support scheme until the middle of next year, PwC has said in a pre-budget submission. Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports.

Sigmar Recruitment, one of the country's leading recruiters says the jobs market for professionals is at its most buoyant in two decades as the anticipated return of workers to offices has sparked a surge in people choosing to change jobs. Mark Paul has the details.

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Struggling to buy a home? Fiona Reddan has some tips on how you might be able to borrow more in our personal finance feature.

Could the exit of a number of lenders actually result in lower mortgage rates? Cantillon examines an analysis by Goodbody's Eamonn Hughes.

In Q&A, a reader outlines a complex family inheritance issue following the deaths of her sister and her sister's son in 2019. Dominic Coyle offers some guidance.

In Media & Marketing, Laura Slattery says it would be wrong to let Jeff Bezos ruin space for the rest of us, now that he has stepped down as chief executive of Amazon.

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Ciarán Hancock

Ciarán Hancock

Ciarán Hancock is Business Editor of The Irish Times