Ciarán Hancock

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Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock · Should Meta's 'intrusive' smart glasses be banned? · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

tariffs were part of that uh response by him and

kind of been shut down by the US courts.

But I just wonder are we over the hump of uh Trump's threats uh towards the multinational sector here?

Are they still taking it as seriously as as they were in the early part of last year when they did respond with investment announcements uh and job announcements and so forth.

Now some of those might have been reheats, but nonetheless they did and it seemed to curry favor with them.

Yeah I

Mm.

We've got the budget coming up obviously in October.

You mentioned that corporation tax is now the second biggest tax setting for the government at the moment.

A lot of the sort of spending commitments that they're gonna make and tax pledges uh that they're gonna make are are being underpinned by corporation tax, aren't they?

fact I think IFAC has said that the figures that are published on on budget day are already out of date.

wargamed uh what would happen to the Irish uh exchequer finances if, for example,

And Apple, uh, an Eli Lily and Microsoft was to uh was to pull out or their uh corporation tax revenues were to drop.

Let's say five billion.

Uh five billion was wiped off our corporation tax receipts in a few years' time.

Has anybody wargamed that?

What impact it would have?

So this is around housing, it's around water infrastructure, it's around uh the electricity network.

Uh it's trying to address uh a lot of the gaps uh that we have.

And some progress has been made.

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