Taoiseach and Juncker hold tax talks

A swath of changes to corporation tax in the European Commission’s pipeline topped the Taoiseach’s agenda when he met the president of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker officially in Brussels.

New rules that would force every country to make public the tax arrangements with larger companies, including multi nationals is due in March and later in the year the Commission is expected to consider relaunching the stalled common consolidated corporate tax proposal.

They will also consider the the OECD proposals on having companies publish where and how much tax they pay under the plan to tackle base erosion and profit shifting - BEPS.