Apple tax

Budget 2025: €3bn raised this year from the sale of AIB shares earmarked for infrastructure and development

Seen and Heard: ‘It’s my prerogative’ to call election, Taoiseach tells Sunday Times; McKillen jnr moves to LA; companies eye penalties for stay-at-home workers

What may have seemed a pragmatic way of simplifying tax assessment for Apple in the early days was leveraged into a huge tax-avoidance scheme

Rite & Reason: Profitable firms with substantial income should make a contribution to society rather than pursue various schemes and methods to avoid such contributions

Less than a quarter of respondents to poll said they wanted the Government to prioritise increased spending on public services

‘Help with the cost of living’ is what half of all respondents to Irish Times Poll want to see in the budget, more than twice the 24% who opt for increased spending on public services

Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien is understood to be targeting expanded funding for the Land Development Agency to build 20,000 homes by 2030

EU General Court’s decision unlikely to be end of the matter

Natural habitats are in a critical condition

The €13bn tax case, while unwelcome, always related to times long past with no real impact for any of the players going forward

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Simon Harris says Michael McGrath’s appointment to EU’s justice portfolio is a ‘vote of confidence’ by Von der Leyen

Lack of coastal management plan raises concerns

Shop owners say rising costs, increased crime and antisocial behaviour threaten livelihoods

Revenue, under its own rules, did not have jurisdiction to tax the bulk of Apple’s offshore profits

Apple’s windfall cash will help fund State investment, but promises about top-class education, green energy and abundant water count for little without delivery

Fianna Fáil Minister for Finance on the challenges of putting together his first budget, which will include a €3bn injection for key infrastructure priorities

Apple case decision comes at a tricky moment for Ireland’s industrial policy, for so long pegged on tax

Better water and energy services will also be paid for out of this allocation, Minister for Finance says in interview with The Irish Times

Ireland is a country with first-world income but third-world infrastructure. We have the opportunity to rectify this. Our problem is not a lack of cash, it’s a lack of courage