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LATEST: Lawmakers push to lower Ireland’s beneficial ownership threshold below 25%

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By Paul O’Donoghue, Senior Correspondent

AN Irish parliamentary committee has called for the country to drop its threshold for corporate beneficial ownership disclosure below 25%.

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform, and Digitalisation said that lowering the cutoff could help combat financial crime.

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