Katie Taylor was boxing clever outside the ring last year as accumulated profits at her firm passed the €1.4m mark. 

The Irish Beverage Council (IBC) has called a tax on sugary drinks a “blunt instrument” in the battle against obesity.

The cash pile at the entertainment firm co-owned by movie star Cillian Murphy topped €1m at the end of last year.

The entertainment firm co-owned by Irish actor Cillian Murphy recorded profits of over €360,000 in its first year in operation.

A cystic fibrosis (CF) charity that has single-handedly funded the overhaul of facilities for CF patients in a public hospital at a cost of almost €3m has called on the Government to waive a €400,000 tax bill. 

A husband and wife are to stand trial in connection with the alleged theft of €1.25m from Vodafone Ireland over a four-year period.

Around 2000BC, Egyptian tax officials came up with a clever wheeze.

Three members of the State’s prosecution team in the long-running Anglo trial are the top three best-paid barristers by the DPP for the first six months of this year.

The media firm owned by RTÉ broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan was back in the black last year after seeing a positive swing of €29,718.

The media firm owned by broadcaster and columnist, Vincent Browne recorded profits of €135,831 last year, new figures show.

Nearly one in every three cigarettes smoked in Cork city and county could be contraband, according to a survey which points to massive losses to Revenue from smuggling.

Accumulated profits at the firm owned by Leinster and Irish rugby star Jamie Heaslip last year topped €60,000.

The Revenue Commissioners were taken to task for possible undue leniency in settling cases with a number of defaulters and failing to apply sufficient penalties and interest.

The computer games market in Ireland was worth €248m last year according to research by Jamie McCormick, an industry specialist who complied the figures in a report, The Games Industry in Ireland 2012.

Spain presented a tough 2013 budget in what many see as an effort to pre-empt the likely conditions of an international bailout, deepening spending cuts that have sent angry Spaniards into the streets.

The country’s top-rated restaurant “has come through the worst of the recession” after recording increased business last year and in the current year.

HE WAS heralded as its “white knight” for giving crucial support to a flagging development agenda.

Embattled TD Mick Wallace faces further scrutiny of his finances after being forced out of the Independents’ Technical Group over his failure to declare €1.4m owed in Vat.

THE Government’s decision not to increase excise duty on alcohol has been strongly criticised by health experts, but welcomed by the alcohol industry.

Businesses catering to tourists must slash prices in line with the cut in VAT, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has warned.

BUILDING chiefs want the first-time buyers’ grant reintroduced and stamp duty on homes temporarily suspended as incentives to restart house buying.

The Construction Industry Federation is urging the Government to pump money into the sector, to secure jobs and create more revenue.

The Government should help first-time buyers to purchase the estimated 40,000 houses lying unsold in the country, it was claimed today.

A liquidated software company that has no funds or assets has been fined a total of €140,000 for defrauding €250,000 from the Revenue Commissioners in VAT returns.

DYLAN CREAVEN was know as ‘Hollywood’ in Limerick’s rugby and social circles because he always drank champagne.

THE owners and operators of the National Aquatic Centre (NAC) are locked in a dispute over who should pay for repairing problems at the centre, which has been leaking millions of litres of water over the past few months.