| Save as you earn schemes benefit corporates |
Issue: 05 / 2001 |
| Save as you earn schemes can be used to give your employees a stake in the business and help to create greater employee loyalty, Rachel Killeen writes. |
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| Skills tax hinders need to up IFSC value |
Issue: 05 / 2001 |
| Peter O’Dwyer on why the PRSI decision must be re-examined. |
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| Suburbs competitive to regions for rental space |
Issue: 05 / 2001 |
| With fast rising rental costs in Dublin and businesses looking to the regions for alternatives, Roland O’Connell examines the real costs of renting office space. |
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| Tax and the Stadium |
Issue: 05 / 2001 |
| Ireland appears to have been suffering from stadium mania over several months. The taxpayer has already contributed to one stadium, and may be called upon to do so again. That would pale into insignificance compared to the contribution to the Abbotstown stadium. Has tax any relevance to all of this? |
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| Tax issues for property investors |
Issue: 05 / 2001 |
| Investing in property holds many taxation implications, yet as Paul Mee shows, careful planning can still enable tax efficient investment. |
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| The ‘It’s not an amnesty’ amnesty |
Issue: 05 / 2001 |
| Faced with a handful of unpopular banks, the PAC demanded blood (or rather, lots of money, which for a bank is the same thing). Faced with an estimated 50,000 voters/taxpayers the PAC accepted pragmatism. Is the reaction a correct one? Is the manner of delivery appropriate? |
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| The essential guide to straight through processing |
Issue: 05 / 2001 |
| Straight through processing offers the opportunity to make substantial cost reductions in the securities industry. |
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| Zero p.c. corporation tax for US proposed |
Issue: 05 / 2001 |
| An issue of major importance to Ireland’s domestic and international financial services community is the news that the US administration is considering abolishing corporation tax entirely. |
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| ABN AMRO’s plans |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| ABN AMRO do not plan to replace the key role of economist following the departure of Dan McLaughlin earlier this year. |
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| Balanced scorecard helps put the emphasis on corporate strategy |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Balanced scorecards help to focus a company on its strategy and goals and is a process that can enhance a company’s reputation and credibility, says Patrick Durkin. |
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| Bear market will trigger different reasons for M&A |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Opportunities for M&A in the international context still abound, but the switch from a bull to a bear market means that the drivers for making the deal have changed. According to Ivan Murphy the rationale now will be more on restructuring to save costs and improve performance to weather out the storm. |
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| Board to boost insurance claims process |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| The Government intends to establish on a statutory basis a Personal Injuries Assessment Board to improve the efficiency of the insurance claims process. |
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| Business taxation |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Some of the technical measures in the Finance Act have received little publicity but are of importance to business. Some effort has been made to bring our tax legislation into harmony with European Union requirements. The potential for tax planning created by our multiplicity of tax rates in the corporate area has been addressed by a ring fencing of losses. |
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| Cautious markets reflect change from bull to bear |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| In this year’s special focus on Mergers and Acquisitions, Finance has carried out an opinion survey among corporate finance advisers on market developments in M&A, MBOs and other types of corporate finance transactions. The answers together capture present thinking among Ireland’s corporate finance advisers on important topics such as sources of new finance, valuations, best deal structures, corporate restructuring and the degree of risk aversion among Irish management. |
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| Changes in accounting for defined benefit pension schemes |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| The ABS has issued a new accounting standard covering retirement benefits. For companies operating defined benefit pension plans, FRS 17 is expected to make a material difference to reported profits as well as require much more onerous disclosures than its predecessor, SSAP 24. |
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