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DAIRY SECTOR KEEPS BOOSTING CONTAMINATION CHECKS TO MINIMISE RISK OF FOOD HEALTH PROBLEMS
DAIRY products sold in Europe, a regional market where high standards of food safety apply, continue to be contaminated with plastics, glass, chemicals, biological matter and other materials. This is despite the fact that European food producers and authorities have zero risk as their ultimate goal, sector experts and the European Union (EU) regulators admit.…
ACCOUNTANTS SHEPHERDING IRELAND’S CONSTRUCTION SECTOR AS IT RECOVERS FROM THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
CONSTRUCTION was a pillar of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger boom that brought wealth to the country before the global financial crisis hit in 2008. Now, 10 years on, the Irish building sector is once again fuelling economic growth, with construction activity having “significantly increased” in the past 14 months, according to Jamie O’Hanlon, an accountant and managing director, of Dublin and Portlaoise-based Avid Partners.…
EU ALSO PUSHES FORWARD ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s January votes also laid down a negotiating position on proposals to revise the EU’s energy efficiency directive (2012/27/EU 2011/0172(COD)). MEPs want a binding EU-wide target for improving energy efficiency by 35% by 2030. Assessments to demonstrate compliance would be held under the PRIMES model, which simulates the EU energy consumption and the energy supply system – see https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/strategies/analysis/models_en…
DAIRY INDUSTRY LEADERS DIVIDED OVER BEST PATH FOR EU FAIR TRADE LEGISLATION
The promise of the European Union (EU) agriculture and rural development Commissioner Phil Hogan to give dairy and other farmers “a fair share of the pie” from food industry revenues and to protect them from the power of big retailers has added tension to an already vexed issue.…
FINANCIAL PLANNING HAS BECOME KEY TO THE RECOVERY OF THE IRISH HOTEL SECTOR
After a bleak decade of boom-to-bust, debt and hotel closures, Ireland’s hotel sector is again in what it hopes is a sustainable growth mode as the economy rebounds. A 2017 Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) survey of hotel members showed that 91% are planning investments in capacity with 43% planning to invest in guest technology, such as broadband. …
EXPERTS CLAIM CHANGES TO IRISH ECOMMERCE TAX REGIME POSES GREATER THREAT THAN BREXIT
IF Brexit did not pose a sufficiently large external threat to the Irish economy, another potentially major disruption is in the offing, via planned changes to European Union (EU) taxation rules on e-commerce.
Faced with the politically toxic reality that major American high-tech multinationals such as Google, Facebook and PayPal pay far less tax than might be expected given their huge profit, the European Union (EU) has been considering reforms to increase revenues from these giants.…
EXPERTS CLAIM CHANGES TO IRISH ECOMMERCE TAX REGIME POSES GREATER THREAT THAN BREXIT
IF Brexit did not pose a sufficiently large external threat to the Irish economy, another potentially major disruption is in the offing, via planned changes to European Union (EU) taxation rules on e-commerce.
Faced with the politically toxic reality that major American high-tech multinationals such as Google, Facebook and PayPal pay far less tax than might be expected given their huge profit, the European Union (EU) has been considering reforms to increase revenues from these giants.…
EU PUSHES AHEAD WITH COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY DECLARATION RULES – BUT ALLOWS MAJOR LOOPHOLE
THE DECISION by the European Union (EU) to push ahead with legislation insisting that major companies publish key country-by-country (CbC) tax data might be criticised by some corporates as unnecessary, given earlier legislation has forced them to structure their books on a CbC basis.…
WHEN ACCOUNTANTS BECOME VENTURE CAPITALISTS
DUBLIN-based accountancy firm BDO is planning to start a new EUR100 million investment fund to assist fast expanding mid-sized Irish companies in unlocking further growth opportunities. This will be the successor fund to an already existing BDO Development Capital Fund (DCF) worth EUR75 million.…
IRELAND COULD DO MORE TO TACKLE TERROR FINANCING, REPORT WARNS
IRELAND prioritises its counter-terrorism measures, but could do more to tackle the financing of such criminal activities, a new report published this month has found.
The latest assessment of Ireland’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) system by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) was adopted at its June plenary meeting.…