Big questions surround corporate tax bounty as voters are left uninformed

The companies, Revenue and now foreign jurisdictions know how much multinationals are paying the State. It seems the only people not to know are the voters.

On Wednesday, with the Department of Finance releasing tax and spend figures for November, the focus will fall back on the huge corporate tax bounty which is driving the remarkable surge in Government revenues.

Over the first 10 months of the year, the State had already collected €2bn more from corporate taxes than it had anticipated a year ago.