Broadcaster Neil Prendeville sued his former accountants after he had to settle a €541,000 tax bill.

Broadcaster Neil Prendeville has spoken of his shock after discovering he is to be listed as a tax defaulter following a Revenue audit.

I believed at the time that the decision in Budget 2019 to increase the Vat rate for the hospitality industry from 9% to 13.5% was a mistake in terms of its timing, its magnitude and the rationale that was used.

Ireland has only made “limited progress” towards broadening its tax base, and dealing with aggressive tax planning by multinational companies, according to the European Commission.

A fuel distribution company has lost its challenge against a tax bill of over €1.3m from Revenue over its failure to keep proper records of sales of large volumes of marked diesel to a customer suspected of involvement in fuel laundering.

The Department of Finance is accusing the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) of misrepresenting the main findings of a report on Ireland’s corporation tax take.

Taxpayers are an interesting lot.

The idea of imposing a wealth tax on the richest Americans has elicited sharply divergent views across a spectrum of politicians, with President Donald Trump branding it socialist and progressive Democratic presidential contenders Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders prominently endorsing it.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has upgraded his growth and budget surplus forecasts for this year but has warned that Corporation Tax receipts are set to fall by up to €2bn.

Ireland’s tax system is the best in Europe and the fourth-best in the world in terms of the ease in dealing with local tax authorities, according to a global survey by accountants PwC.

Very few people in Ireland, least of all those of us working in the Irish drinks industry, would have voted for Britain to leave the EU.

A relatively small falloff in windfall corporation tax receipts would deliver an outsized and longstanding hit to government finances, the Economic and Social Research Institute has warned.

36 cases involving settlements totalling just under €8m were published today by the Revenue Commissioners.

You could be entitled to a refund from the taxman, and getting it later this month, or early next year, would provide a welcome boost to household finances.

On or around December 9 almost all employees can expect to receive a letter from Revenue.

Ireland will have to prepare for a fall in lucrative corporation taxes in the coming years, the Finance Minister admits.

Google Ireland paid €272m in corporation tax last year, newly-filed accounts show.

It remains difficult to judge how much of the huge haul in corporate tax revenues are windfalls and will not be repeated in the coming years, according to research by the Department of Finance.

Nine EU countries have called on the bloc’s incoming executive Commission to introduce an EU-wide tax on aviation so as to charge a polluting industry more for its emissions and put all member states on level pegging.

As the news from the eurozone continues to deteriorate, with the latest prognostications for the German economy looking particularly concerning, Irish economic data releases continue to paint a pretty positive picture of what is happening here.

When London’s Saracens beat Leinster in the European rugby final in Newcastle last May, the club, and its sugar daddy owner, Nigel Wray, could not have imagined that win might be a high-water mark.

Why do we venerate the hoarding of money? Broadly, we regard hoarding as a bad thing. To call someone a hoarder is to imply psychological disturbance and a living space that needs a good clearout before it gets made into a cheap documentary. Unless you hoard money. Having too much of that is revered.

Last week the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) proposed breaking a taboo in international corporate taxation that countries only have a right to tax activities from companies that have a physical presence on their soil.

Plans to shake up the way governments tax multinationals, which could upend the decades-old Irish tax regime, are racing ahead, with an agreement possible by next summer.

Globalisation has gotten a bad rap in recent years, and often for good reason, writes Joseph E Stiglitz.

Tax is a tricky subject. At one level I get the concept that paying general tax helps our elected politicians to finance the services that most agree are key to civil society.

Sinn Féin have called on the government to withdraw its appeal against an EU order for tech giant Apple to pay Ireland some €13bn in back taxes.

The European Commission ordered the tech giant to pay over €13bn in back taxes and interest to Ireland to make up for the shortfall.

A single worker pays the higher rate of income tax of 40% on any income they have beyond €35,300 a year.

Increases in carbon taxes should help fund energy- efficient grants for houses and greener transport options, the public and businesses have advised ahead of the budget.

Recently the US economist Arthur Laffer was awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Trump.

The lifting of a scare over an unexpected shortfall in corporation tax revenues could pave the way for some sort of giveaway budget even as the gloom over a no-deal Brexit outcome deepens, a leading economist has said.

The cost to the taxpayer of funding the salaries of all TDs and Senators in Leinster House last year increased by 4.5% to €19.4m.

Over €39.82 million remains unpaid to the Revenue Commissioners in taxes, penalties and interest from published tax defaulters in last two years.

The Finance Minister has stood by promises of major tax cuts in the coming budget.

Equal taxes should be applied to profits from an investment as to Dirt tax on a bank account, as it makes no sense to penalise people by charging them a higher tax rate for making a more prudent investment.

An airline ticket tax and other carbon taxes, an increased betting tax, and setting a minimum rate of corporation tax, feature among the proposals of advocacy group Social Justice Ireland in its proposals for October’s budget.

It is important that tax reliefs — particularly the costliest ones — are scrutinised and that there is proper parliamentary debate to ensure they remain cost-effective and fit for purpose, writes Eamon Murphy.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has only €600m in additional tax cuts and spending increases - which may, at best, only allow him €300m in income tax cuts, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) has said, in its first major report ahead of October’s budget.

Paschal Donohoe has nothing in his way to set “a generous” tax package in a possible pre-election budget in October despite the finance minister receiving a scare over disappointing corporate tax revenues last month, a leading economist has said.

While tax is ultimately all about paying money, a critical element of tax collection is the communication between the taxpayer and the Revenue Commissioners to ensure the right amount is paid at the right time.