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...Big airlines and the Irish prime minister have warned that maintaining the cap could hit an economy where multinationals such as Microsoft, Apple, Google and Pfizer pay billions of euros in corporation tax...
...The International Finance Corporation, the private sector-focused arm of the World Bank Group, and US-based asset manager T Rowe Price are collaborating on a new fund to invest in blue bonds issued by companies...
...Former UK prime minister David Cameron even tried to start a $1bn private equity fund anchored by the state-backed China Investment Corporation....
...It should have demanded that the Taliban hand Osama bin Laden to an international tribunal and flooded the Middle East with documentaries about the Muslims who died in the 9/11 attacks....
...But juggernaut proportions haven’t always meant vast profits: the international consumer business made a loss last year. There is an element of symbolism here....
...Bronek Masojada was to depart the underwriter....
...— is completing the 10 residential buildings that make up London City Island on the Leamouth Peninsula in a joint venture with EcoWorld International....
...The biggest is that the UK at present has limited international credibility in green finance....
...One example is the forthcoming closure of the “double Irish” loophole that allowed international companies to reduce the tax they paid on their global operations....
...The International Finance Corporation has tried to tighten standards for impact investing with disclosures, but not all of the funds that signed up have published their measurements....
...The UK cutting aid to some of the world’s poorest countries was both an inhumane act, reneging on an international commitment, and in the context of the global pandemic almost certainly counter-productive...
...China’s state aerospace and defence corporation is among the investors backing an acquisition of Ireland’s oldest stockbroker, Goodbody....
...UK financial services sector and achieve its strategic goals in the region, while also having limited exposure to any impact from Brexit given Goodbody’s EU-based operations,” the Irish company said in...
...Irish five-year bonds yield only 0.1 per cent more than similar German government securities, while Bermuda’s international dollar bonds yield half a per cent more than comparable Treasury securities....
...At least 75 per cent of Ridgeford Developments is owned by Sean Murray, 55, an Irish property developer, according to Companies House filings....
...Another executive with an international leasing company confirmed the delays to the Financial Times but said that payments were being made “bit by bit”, allaying lessors’ concerns....
...“The Irish company Google Ireland Limited is not taxable in France over the period from 2005 to 2010,” the tribunal concluded in a terse statement....
...MIM (presumably a limited company, although not described as such) then granted licenses or permissions for the image rights to be used by various companies in return for an agreed fee....
...Jeremy Cape, a partner specialising in tax at Dentons, a law firm said: “ My conclusion is that Google is accepting the new international tax paradigm and will be paying much more UK corporation tax.”...
...There has been outrage over the way Pfizer, the US drug company, is taking over Allergan, an Irish-registered group....
...Underwriters are also asked to imagine their complete financial wipe out through a grown-up version of the toddler’s question: “Daddy, what’s it like being dead?” An “A” for effort for the PRA....
...No team from outside the Foundation Eight (the British and Irish quartet, France, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia) has made it to the final, with the Argentinian team in 2007 the only outsiders to...
...Independence referendums for the francophone province sparked an exodus of business out of Montreal in the 1980s and 1990s, depressing the city’s economy as large corporations moved their headquarters to...
...The Irish government has come under international pressure to close tax loopholes that allow multinationals to pay tax rates that are less than the headline 12.5 per cent corporation tax....
...Last year it incurred an expense for Irish corporation tax of €1.95m in 2012 and a foreign withholding tax expense of €4.37m. It benefited from a deferred tax credit worth €1.11m....
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