There are financial and efficiency gains to be realized in nearly every facet of our world in which we can improve and optimize. So why has it taken so long for VCs to think about optimizing ourselves? And should we be worried?
Of the many transport situations where driving a car makes little sense, business trips are the most obvious. The tax treatment of expenses claims offers one of the many avenues needed to tackle the disproportionate cost of the drive-everywhere mindset.
From incentives for remote workers to a credit for payroll taxes, there are a host of practical ways Budget 2022 can help businesses. But with just €500m allocated for tax relief, we are unlikely to see too much movement.
I don’t expect Budget 2022 to deliver a step change for start-ups and scale-ups. But the government could make a real difference if it enhanced incentives for investors and fixed the broken share option scheme.
The GAA provides a sense in Northern Ireland of being part of an all-ireland structure which, since Brexit, matters more than ever.
The Cobblestone is a special place, but be careful – the impulse to conserve things is what makes Ireland unaffordable.
Joe Biden's long life in politics has been full of tragedy which led him to believe in the importance of family. But that entwining has created its own issues.
Up until last February, attorney general Paul Gallagher was acting in an epic courtroom saga involving an oligarch and an alleged $2 billion corporate raid on a Russian ammonia plant called ToAZ. But who exactly was he representing?
Ireland is signing up to a global agreement that no large multinational should pay less than 15% in corporation tax anywhere. The structures used by firms here show that the calculation of the exact profit taxable at this rate matters a lot more than the headline figure.
Covid-19 has succeeded where generations of Irish politicians failed – it generated an appetite for people to live somewhere other than close to the major cities. So what does mean for future property prices around the country?
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