Ireland needs to nail down new policies on corporate taxation that allow the country to be "competitive" but also comply with changes envisaged under global tax reforms.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has warned the EU’s new digital tax could fuel the threatened transatlantic trade war and claimed as many as 10 member states now oppose the proposed levy.

Plans unveiled by the European Commission for a digital tax of 3% on the turnover of online giants to bring in €5bn is “bad news for Ireland, again”, a tax expert has said.

The Commission expects the change to generate an estimated €5billion for member states if the tax is applied.

President Donald Trump is to press ahead with the imposition of 25% tariffs on steel imports and 10% on aluminum, although he said he was willing to strike a deal that could exempt Canada and Mexico.

The “door is open” should the UK want to reverse its 2016 vote to leave the EU, says Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Union.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe yesterday faced a barrage of criticism over Ireland’s tax regime from a prestigious panel at Davos, amid claims the country was facilitating the “stealing of jobs and tax revenues” from fellow Europeans and the world’s hard-working poor.

The European Union needs a quick agreement on proposed rules for lawyers, bankers and other advisers that help devise ways to aggressively cut tax bills, the European tax commissioner Pierre Moscovici has said, writes Francesco Guarascio. 

Leading EU official Pierre Moscovici has warned that potentially damaging customs checks may still be imposed at Irish ports and airports, when Brexit takes place in two years’ time.

France and Germany are pressing ahead with a plan to harmonise EU corporate taxes, an initiative the Irish Government has long vowed to reject.

The European Union has announced that Greece is no longer breaking budget rules.

We are frequently genuinely and understandably concerned with the lack of accountability that exists in much of our political and administrative public bodies. 

An MEP has criticised the European Commission over its handling of the proposed EU-wide corporation tax policy, saying it has fudged its figures trying to persuade sceptical countries to come on board.

An EU report to be published in late June will put a spotlight on increases in Irish house prices, according to Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes.

EU finance ministers have agreed to close a loophole that allowed multinationals to avoid paying corporate taxes, in part by funnelling profits through Ireland.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has stepped up the Government’s campaign against Brussels’ plan for a new common corporate tax regime saying the proposal will endanger the international “consensus” on ways to tax multinationals.

The Government has little room for significant tax cuts despite the European Commission projecting the economy here will grow at a healthy rate through 2018, according to analysts.

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Pierre Moscovici, head of tax at the European Commission, was in Dublin yesterday and said he was open to compromises that would help encourage Ireland to buy into Brussels’ new tax proposal that aims to share out Europe’s corporate tax spoils.

The EU’s economics commissioner Pierre Moscovici has said Brussels will “do everything to preserve” the North’s peace agreement and its “special” position once Brexit negotiations begin with Britain.

The EU’s economics commissioner has said Brussels will "do everything to preserve" the North’s peace agreement and its "special" position once Brexit negotiations begin with Britain, writes Juno McEnroe of the Irish Examiner.

Phone giant Apple and tax will likely loom large next year, but not in a way that some might suspect.

Markets took a lost referendum and the resignation of Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi on the chin, but Irish taxpayers and Government advisers here will be peering into the distance to see what European elections next year will hold for the sale of AIB, as shares in Italian banks fell sharply.

Greece's bailout lenders have been urged to grant the country relief on its massive debts if Athens agrees to impose tougher budget austerity measures.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s Budget 2017 has passed muster with the European Commission but Ireland has been warned again about the State relying on the one-off bounty from booming corporate tax revenues.

Chatting to business people in Belfast the other week, it is evident that the consequences of Brexit are already being felt north of the border, and the consequences are not all bad.

After the Trump victory, the big question is whether the IDA will maintain foreign investment. The Government should consider cutting corporation tax, reports Kyran Fitzgerald.

Chatting to business people in Belfast this week, it is evident that the consequences of Brexit are already being felt north of the border, and the consequences are not all bad.

The EU’s tax chief has appealed for a “serene” response from Ireland on the bloc’s latest corporate tax overhaul, saying he’s not out to harm the country’s business model.

The European commissioner for tax affairs has hit out at Ireland’s “strange” decision to appeal the €13bn Apple tax ruling as he confirmed Brussels is considering establishing a “European black list of tax havens” to tackle tax evasion within their borders.

THERE was a whiff of irony in the air at yesterday’s meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Bratislava where Ireland’s normally popular minister Michael Noonan (in Europe, at any rate) found himself somewhat isolated.

The Government in its push back was telling anyone who was listening that the Apple case did not involve an assault on Ireland’s 12.5% headline corporate rate and that it had done no wrong in its dealings with the tech giant over the last 15 years.

Spain and Portugal have escaped EU fines despite repeated breaches of the bloc’s budget rules.

Britain’s economy may slip into recession next year following the vote to quit the EU.

Italy said yesterday that it is “making progress” in protracted talks with Brussels over the best ways to inject much-needed money into its broken banks.

UK Chancellor George Osborne’s plans to slash corporation tax, in the battle for overseas investment, would wipe out the effects of Brexit and boost FDI by more than 10%, a think-tank claims.

Greece has told its European and IMF creditors it cannot implement some of the extra changes sought in exchange for fresh bailout loans, sources close to the talks said yesterday.