economic incentives

5 min read 2021-12-21 20:41:00

Underestimating housing consumption in the national accounts

It's not just household-level data such as the SILC where our approaches to the provision of social housing present measurement issues. In the

5 min read 2021-12-21 06:59:00

The CSO have published the 2020 results for the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). There were a number of methodological changes that

7 min read 2021-12-06 19:21:00

Eurostat have 2020 figures for Ireland to the EU-SILC, the EU’s Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Ireland is one of the last countries

5 min read 2021-11-30 19:52:00

The 2020 accounts for Google Ireland Limited were published last week and showed that the company had a €218 million tax charge that arose from

2 min read 2021-11-30 01:24:00

Google set up its EMEA headquarters in Dublin in 2003, a year before its IPO. Initially it was a modest operation and during 2003 the average

4 min read 2021-11-25 21:13:00

Google ended its use of the high-profile ‘double-irish’ tax structure in 2019. We have been tracking the impact of the revised structure in

1 min read 2021-11-25 21:13:00

Google ended its use of the high-profile ‘double-irish’ tax structure in 2019. We have been tracking the impact of the revised structure in

1 min read 2021-11-20 06:13:00

Here is a website that has an interactive chart showing the position of a country’s income distribution within the global distribution. The

1 min read 2021-11-11 13:03:00

=====This could be an initiative in keeping with the November 2020 post, "What should a domestic Marshall Plan/21st Century New Deal look

1 min read 2021-11-05 20:23:00

The distortions in Ireland’s national accounts means that the contribution of some sectors can be overlooked as it cannot be disentangled from huge

1 min read 2021-11-03 21:33:00

The current account of the balance of payments is an important indicator of imbalances in an economy. The historical estimates of Ireland’s

1 min read 2021-10-06 20:18:00

The CSO have published the Q2 2021 update of the Non-Financial Institutional Sector Accounts. Here we will focus on the household sector (which in

1 min read 2021-10-04 18:57:00

One notable aspect of the presence of US MNCs in Ireland is the scale of outbound royalty payments. These are payments their Irish subsidiaries make

1 min read 2021-07-23 22:41:00

In its 2020 annual report Google noted that: As of December 31, 2019, we have simplified our corporate legal entity structure and now license

1 min read 2021-07-23 19:08:00

Ireland’s balance of payments is subject to huge volatility. Among the reasons for this are transactions in intellectual property and aircraft