FINANCE Minister Brian Cowen yesterday announced he was pressing ahead with scrapping a generous tax arrangement that allowed foreign employees of multinational companies escape paying most of their tax on Irish income.

HUNDREDS of tax cheats will escape being named and shamed by the Revenue Commissioners when Finance Minister Brian Cowen changes the settlement limit at which they can be identified.

THOUSANDS of families are locked in battle with the Revenue Commissioners over tax demands relating to bogus non-resident accounts once held by dead loved ones.