Columnist for the Business Post
Here is a selection of my Business Post articles, from 2023-2025
2025
- May 11, 2025: The ground is shifting on Ireland’s economic model – it’s time we woke up to the risks
https://www.businesspost.ie/irelands-tax-mirage/aiden-regan-the-ground-is-shifting-on-irelands-economic-model-its-time-we-woke-up-to-the-risks/ - May 3, 2025: Ireland’s Tax Mirage: One IP, two balance sheets: How VMware’s Irish engine turns global growth into local losses
https://www.businesspost.ie/irelands-tax-mirage/one-ip-two-balance-sheets-how-vmwares-irish-engine-turns-global-growth-into-local-losses/ - May 3, 2025: Ireland’s Tax Mirage Methodology: How an unprecedented investigation uncovered Ireland’s Tax Mirage (with Peter O’Dwyer)
https://www.businesspost.ie/irelands-tax-mirage/irelands-tax-mirage-methodology-how-an-unprecedented-investigation-uncovered-irelands-tax-mirage/ - May 3, 2025: Ireland’s Tax Mirage: The inside story of how Ireland became Coca-Cola’s multibillion-dollar tax shelter
https://www.businesspost.ie/irelands-tax-mirage/irelands-tax-mirage-the-inside-story-of-how-ireland-became-coca-colas-multibillion-dollar-tax-shelter/ - May 3, 2025: Ireland’s Tax Mirage: How US tax reform fuelled a corporate tax boom – and why it may not last
https://www.businesspost.ie/irelands-tax-mirage/irelands-tax-mirage-how-us-tax-reform-fuelled-a-corporate-tax-boom-and-why-it-may-not-last/ - March 30, 2025: Aidan Regan: It’s hard to argue with Donald Trump’s claims about Irish pharma
https://www.businesspost.ie/irelands-tax-mirage/analysis-aidan-regan-its-hard-to-argue-with-donald-trumps-claims-about-irish-pharma/ - March 16, 2025: Musk’s War Chest: Tesla’s tax strategy and the weaponisation of wealth (with Rafael Quintero Godinez)
https://www.businesspost.ie/irelands-tax-mirage/analysis-musks-war-chest-teslas-tax-strategy-and-the-weaponisation-of-wealth/ - January 26, 2025:Big Tech’s extreme wealth has created an American oligarchy
https://www.businesspost.ie/irelands-tax-mirage/comment-analysis-aidan-regan-big-techs-extreme-wealth-has-created-an-american-oligarchy/
2024
- December 8, 2024: How Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael spent like the left to stay in power
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-how-fianna-fail-and-fine-gael-spent-like-the-left-to-stay-in-power/ - November 17, 2024: Election has sparked wild spending promises, but little strategy
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-election-has-sparked-wild-spending-promises-but-little-strategy/ - September 15, 2024: The Apple case was about state aid, but its implications go much further
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-the-apple-case-was-about-state-aid-but-its-implications-go-much-further/ - June 23, 2024:It is because Eamon Ryan was so effective that the Greens are hated
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-it-is-because-eamon-ryan-was-so-effective-that-the-greens-are-hated/ - May 26, 2024: Businesses and banks are turning their backs on the climate crisis
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-businesses-and-banks-are-turning-their-backs-on-the-climate-crisis/ - April 14, 2024: Fine Gael’s centre-right politics is dead unless under-40s can own homes
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-fine-gaels-centre-right-politics-is-dead-unless-under-40s-can-own-homes/ - March 10, 2024: Ireland has a clear choice – invest more in public services or cap immigration
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-ireland-has-a-clear-choice-invest-more-in-public-services-or-cap-immigration/ - February 4, 2024: With elections in 70 countries, will 2024 be the year democracy eats itself?
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-with-elections-in-70-countries-will-2024-be-the-year-democracy-eats-itself/
2023
- December 17, 2023: We can have climate action, democracy or wealth – but not all three together
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-we-can-have-climate-action-democracy-or-wealth-but-not-all-three-together/ - December 3, 2023: The state doesn’t have capacity to fix issues in housing, transport, health or crime
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-the-state-doesnt-have-capacity-to-fix-issues-in-housing-transport-health-or-crime/ - November 19, 2023: Why the Apple tax saga is really about antitrust and competition law
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-why-the-apple-tax-saga-is-really-about-antitrust-and-competition-law/ - October 20, 2023: Government faces new class conflict in housing, politics, and wealth inequality
https://www.businesspost.ie/aidan-regan/aidan-regan-government-faces-new-class-conflict-in-housing-politics-and-wealth-inequality/
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