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Ireland does not cut special tax deals with foreign companies and a U.S. Senate report saying it did so for Apple Inc is incorrect, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said on Tuesday.Ireland has been defending its corporate tax rate after the U.S. Senate said on Monday that Apple paid little or no tax on tens of billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries and that it had negotiated a special corporate tax rate of less than 2%."Ireland does not - I will repeat - does not do special tax rate deals with companies, we don't have any special extra-low corporate tax rate for multinational companies,'' Kenny told parliament."Reports of a lower effective tax rate appear to arrive at their figures by lumping together the profits earned by companies in Ireland and other jurisdictions and incorrectly suggests that the Irish tax does, or should, apply to both.''...
Ireland's government rushed through emergency legislation early on Thursday to liquidate the failed Anglo Irish Bank as it tries to secure a deal with the European C...
The Irish government's credibility with voters would suffer sharply if it failed to win a deal to ease repayments on its huge bank debts, but the lack of an agreemen...
The European Central Bank has rejected Ireland's preferred solution to a dispute over the cost of servicing money borrowed to rescue a failed bank, EU sources famili...
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny Thursday said bond investors expect the European Central Bank to agree to an easing of the terms on which his government repays debts...
LIMASSOL, Cyprus--Cyprus will have to take steps to tackle money laundering and improve the transparency of its banking sector to secure an international bailout dea...
Germany's finance minister repeated on Tuesday that Berlin views Ireland as a special case among bailed-out euro zone states, but did not make clear if that meant th...
Ireland shouldn't demand adjustments to its financial bailout program because that could jeopardize growing market confidence in the country, a key board member of G...
France backs a retroactive recapitalization of Ireland's banks, President Francois Hollande said on Monday, adding that its banking sector should be treated as a spe...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny issued a joint statement on Sunday reaffirming that euro zone leaders would examine ways of impro...
Irish food company Kerry Group is to hire 900 workers for a new food technology centre to be built in Ireland, one of the biggest jobs announcements by a single comp...
The Irish government is still working to secure a deal to refinance the huge sums it pumped into its banks during its severe banking debt crisis, and is pressing Eur...
Ireland urged euro zone leaders on Wednesday to stick to a deal allowing the bloc's rescue fund to assist its ailing banks, in a move to head off threats that the ag...
The Irish government Tuesday denied it is sheltering some of the world's largest corporations, like Apple Inc. (AAPL), from paying taxes, saying the country's longst...
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday urged Ireland's government to stick to its painful austerity program as it emerges from its international bailout, despi...
Ryanair (RYA.LN) has placed an $18 billion order with Boeing Co. (BA) for as many as 200 aircraft, the Irish Independent reported Tuesday. The order, which is for ei...
Ireland's bank debt deal with the European Central Bank will reduce its borrowing needs by 20 billion euros over the next decade and cut its fiscal deficit by some 1...
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny Thursday said a new schedule for repaying debts incurred in support of the country's stricken banks will reduce his government's borr...
The European Central Bank agreed a deal on Thursday to ease Ireland's debt burden in a major boost to Dublin's hopes of emerging from an international bailout progra...
The European Central Bank moved towards agreeing a deal on Thursday to ease Ireland's debt burden after Dublin rushed through emergency legislation to liquidate Angl...
