It comes as the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) warned that up to €6bn, or 60% of the corporation tax take may be "temporary" which leaves this country extremely exposed financially.

Any sudden drop-off in booming corporation tax receipts could be replaced by rising home and office stamp duty taxes, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has suggested.

A new IMF blog post, arguing that low corporation tax rates harm poor countries, will make uncomfortable reading for the Government, as it battles to maintain Ireland’s decades-old business model.

The Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners Niall Cody has warned that the Minister for Finance will have to be prudent and not rely on Corporation Tax to fund State expenditure.

The low level of taxes paid by major tech companies headquartered in Ireland came under fresh attack yesterday from France’s finance minister, who said the regime must change.

An Irish registered pharma company has launched a High Court challenge aimed at overturning a €1.6 billion corporation tax demand by the Revenue Commissioners.

The government has sharply rejected a fresh attack by the European Commission (EC) to remove Ireland's ability to set its own 12.5% corporation tax rate.

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has said that he will not do anything to “unravel” the Public Service pay agreement.

The EU says it' i an important step in the bloc's fight against multinationals trying to take advantage of tax loopholes.

The Government's budget reliance on corporation tax intake "has echoes of the past" and could cause another crash unless clear protections are put in place.

Exchequer figures published today by the Department of Finance show that taxation receipts for the month of November were €631m ahead of target.

Big companies must pay their fair share of taxes - with international changes coming down the line, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said.

The exchequer brought in much less in Vat receipts than it anticipated in October, while corporation tax receipts surged as the Government, as it had anticipated, got the first of its huge windfalls made up of advance payments by multinationals.

The chief executive of the IDA has said that the high cost of housing in the capital is not impacting on the flow of overseas investment into Dublin.

A report published by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today has highlighted what it calls an "unacceptable level of risk" in relation to Corporation Tax receipts.

Ireland is being described as the biggest corporate tax haven in the world.

The “wind is at our backs” in relation to corporation tax yield but “it cannot continue indefinitely”, the head of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has warned.

The Trump administration's trade policies pose a threat to Ireland's Biopharmaceutical sector, a conference taking place in Dublin today has heard.

Ireland’s low tax rates for companies were the subject of criticism from the Luxembourg prime minister who demanded “fair competition” within the EU.

The Finance Minister has defended Ireland’s corporation tax rate.

Ireland is a “tax pirate” and is “stealing” the tax base from other countries, a leading EU MEP says.

Two multinational financial giants have snubbed an official request to appear before the Dáil’s spending watchdog to answer questions over corporate tax loopholes.

“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilisation.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Ireland is losing out on billions of euro every year because eight of the 100 most lucrative Irish-based multinationals pay no corporation tax and five more have a tax bill of less than 1%.

A report by Revenue into Ireland’s corporation tax rules is set to be completed by April — weeks after major multinationals like Apple and LinkedIn are brought before TDs over loopholes in the system.

Your editorial ‘It just got harder to sustain tax argument’ (Irish Examiner, September 30) asked the question if we ‘want to remain some sort of rogue outlier’ in relation to taxing multinationals but the Comptroller and Auditor General’s annual report contradicted the basis of that statement elsewhere in the same editorial.

AIB will not pay a cent in corporation tax for more than 20 years, despite making €814m profit in the first half of this year.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned EU officials that Ireland remains “committed to our stable and competitive tax regime” and has no intention of changing our coveted corporate tax policy.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has warned the European colleagues Ireland "will not participate" in any EU attempt to alter our coveted corporate tax rate.

A new report on Corporate Tax has been criticised for not recommending ways of ending loop holes in the system.

The main Irish unit of US software giant Adobe paid just $41m (€34.7m) in corporation tax last year, despite its revenues rising by 19% to $2.23bn (€1.88bn).

Labour spokesperson on Finance Joan Burton has repeated her called for a minimum effective corporation tax rate, as it was revealed that AIB had informed potential investors that it will pay no corporate tax for up to 30 years.

Employers and unions agree that ringfencing a portion of corporate tax or business profits could be a better way to bolster higher education funding than a government proposal to increase employers’ PRSI.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has delivered a sharp rebuttal to comments from French presidential candidate Macron that Ireland’s corporation tax rates would have to rise.

The US will “likely” cut its corporate taxes, a development which would expose Ireland to increased fiscal risks given the many US multinationals which are based here, according to an economic update by Moody’s Investors Service.

The EU commissioner for economics has said that Ireland's treasured low corporation tax is "not under threat" and that Brussels "fully respects" our our tax sovereignty, writes Juno McEnroe.

The head of the Department of Finance said incoming US president, Donald Trump, would change corporation tax rates there and this could affect Ireland.

Theresa May will suggest she will match Donald Trump's expected cuts to corporation tax as she attempts to hold out an olive branch to business leaders.

Hungary is to undercut Ireland and introduce the EU's lowest corporate tax rate.