Ireland’s first All-Island Strategic Rail Review has been launched, promising to treble rail passenger numbers across the island at a cost of nearly €60 billion. However, is the plan workable and can it deliver?
Capital acquisitions tax has emerged as a political issue for the first time since the financial crisis. Forvis Mazars tax partner Alan Murray examines the factors in budget decisions on inheritance tax.
Throughout our interviews, Mike Lynch struck me as slightly eccentric, with an irreverent sense of humour that came across as affable in a way that some might find disarming. He was constantly passionate about the potential of this country.
The valuation of Newstalk was a key aspect of the recent inspectors’ report into INM. But how do you value a media asset, especially one that is doing okay in a sector where profits are as rare as hens’ teeth?
As Kamala Harris prepares to face a climate-sceptic Donald Trump in the US, new green policies are emerging in the EU and other countries where this mammoth global electoral year is further advanced.
Victor Khosla’s Strategic Value Partners is buying Blanchardstown Centre because it thinks the market has bottomed out, and there is room for significant upside. But Khosla might also have just set a floor on the retail property market in Ireland.
Perhaps it is the Vibecession. Perhaps it is the agitated focus on inflation. The trouble is, Americans do generally feel themselves to be in economic bother and Donald Trump is hoping that voters will decide they were better off under his presidency than they are now.
Dylan McGrath has just shut two long-standing Dublin restaurants. Camile Thai founder Brody Sweeney warns of the danger new government-imposed costs pose to the industry.
Tasked with examining possible tweaks to CGT relief for small landlords, the Tax Strategy Group said it is best to bed in and wait for more data. No one wants a repeat of the furore over the latest landlord income tax break.
Looking at Donald Trump's first term in office will not tell you an awful lot about what we should expect a second time around. However, the tone of the recent Republican convention and the panellists speaking at it are illuminating for investors.
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