April 04th 2016
Multinational companies must pay taxes where they earn profits and stop using aggressive tax optimisation schemes, the European Union’s Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Monday. Moscovi told French radio RTL that the EU had to put a stop to the way companies pay little or no tax in the countries in which they operate, […]
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March 31st 2016
New research shows that 20% of Irish businesses have fallen victim to ransomware attacks, a serious form of cybercrime that sees hackers hold a business’ sensitive and critical data for ransom. This is according to the results of a 2016 Information Security Survey carried out by Data Solutions. The Irish distributor for IT solutions claims […]
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March 30th 2016
We’ve all been asked tough questions at job interviews which have left us scratching our heads before answering. However, new research has revealed the UK’s top ten toughest, and most bizarre, that have left jobseekers downright puzzled. Glassdoor, the jobs and careers marketplace, has whittled down tens of thousands of interview questions shared by job […]
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March 29th 2016
The threat of the UK leaving the EU, along with other economic headwinds, means the Irish business environment will be less benign and increasingly uncertain over the coming months according to Ibec. The group have today published their latest Quarterly Economic Outlook which predicts economic growth of 4.6% this year and 3.9% in 2017. Ibec […]
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March 24th 2016
Half of all Irish consumers would stop buying from a shop that had their bank details lost or stolen in a cyber attack, according to a new survey. A study by Deloitte found that six out of ten respondents would only make an online purchase if they felt confident that their data was secure – […]
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March 23rd 2016
Ireland’s largest companies are beginning to feel the effect of Britain’s debate over whether to remain in the European Union, and it may be a taste of what’s to come for the rest of the nation. Concern about the outcome of the UK referendum in June has helped push the pound down 10pc against the […]
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March 22nd 2016
PwC have today released their 19th Annual Global CEO Survey in which 1,409 interviews were conducted in 83 countries during the last quarter of 2015. By region, 476 interviews were conducted in Asia Pacific, 314 in Western Europe, 170 in Central and Eastern Europe, 169 in Latin America, 146 in North America, 87 in Africa […]
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March 21st 2016
Assistant Director of the Small Firms Association (SFA), Linda Barry, has today claimed that the connections between the Irish and British economies are as deep as they are wide and that trade between the two countries directly supports over 400,000 jobs – half of them in Ireland. She has warned that the looming referendum is […]
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