Conall MacCoille
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2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jun
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not new news in some respect.
I mean, the central bank, the SRI, and, you know, a range of institutions have been warning that corporation taxes in Ireland make a very high share of our overall tax take, as well as that's a very high concentration amongst just a number of companies.
So I think it's pretty well known that, you know, just 10 companies accounted for over half of corporate taxes, and that's been a pretty consistent theme.
So if something nasty were to happen to one or two of those companies, or if we're to see a change in
corporate tax laws in the United States or others that were to dilute those corporate taxes, yes, the public finances should be, or could be exposed.
And, you know, you could see a deficit open up quite quickly.
Now that hasn't happened.
I think something we should be aware of, but it's kind of been, I suppose, ideally we'll be running larger budget surpluses and understanding that these corporate taxes are potentially volatile.
And the political scrutiny of these taxes is probably going to increase as we get more of this detail on the individual payments from individual companies.
And of course, some of the big names like Apple and Microsoft will still have to do this later this year.
Yes, there's going to be more and more scrutiny on this, particularly in the United States, you would suspect.
I think we look at the United States as policy under the Trump administration.
It's unclear at best or ambiguous as to what they're exactly trying to achieve.
I mean, we have tariffs, which on one hand, they're saying tariffs are kind of there to
even up the playing pitch as they see it in terms of trade.
But at the same time, the US corporate tax regime still incentivizes US companies to locate production abroad.
So for all of the noise that you've heard from the Trump administration, the taxes that they impose on US companies that have their headquarters in the United States, the taxes they impose on their global income as opposed to the income they earn in the United States are far lower.
They're kind of around 12, 13%.
There are certainly figures in the United States saying that those rates should be increased.
Maybe some of the tax incentives that US companies can avail of to reduce their US corporate tax bill should be changed.
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