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Business Today |
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Friday, 31 July, 2026 | | |
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Editor's Note |
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Good morning, reader |
US tech giant Microsoft paid more in corporation tax in Ireland last year than it did in US federal taxes, writes Killian Woods. The $6.5bn in taxes paid in Ireland of $50.5 billion in profits made here brings it close to the State’s largest taxpayer, Eli Lilly.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has spent more than €9 million to acquire the first four of up to 15 Rathmines homes it has committed to purchasing beside a contentious MetroLink station site. Killian has the details.
PTSB secured backing from 91.3 per cent of shareholders for its takeover by Austria’s Bawag at an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on Thursday, but support from shareshareholderside the State’s majority holding failed to hit the 75 per cent target, leaving open the possipossibility second court-enforced ballot, writes Joe Brennan.
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