I was amused by this in the Belfast Telegraph this morning:
The Irish government is "sleepwalking" through destructive claims that the state is a tax haven for multinational corporations, Fianna Fail has warned.
Claims levelled against the country by members of a US Senatesubcommittee must be countered by Ireland's political leaders, the party's jobs spokesman Dara Calleary insisted.
There's just one problem: Ireland is a tax haven. It doesn't matter what the Irish say, that's what it is.
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The City of London control so many of these Tax Havens they dont even bother to deny it.
“I have said repeatedly that the City of London is an organised criminal enterprise that owes no allegiances to anyone but itself.”
http://rowans-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-bonfire-of-regulations-why.html
“Tory immunity to facts will not make them disappear”
http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2013/06/03/tory-immunity-to-facts-will-not-make-them-disappear/
The first article just quotes an opposition TD trying to make some type of political gain, no to mention that up until two years ago his party was in government for the past 25 years and it was their policies that directly resulted in Ireland’s economic crisis and subsequent EU/IMF intervention.
The second article you linked is just more fluff quoting different individuals with no real substance.
Just because you say Ireland is a tax haven doesn’t make it so. Despite all the huffing and puffing on here there is no actual substance to all these posts just merely Richard Murphy stating Ireland is a tax haven because everyone thinks so or because RM says so.
No…..
That’s why Barack Obama has also said it
And even I admit he’s got more influence than me
Well then it must be true.
I assume you’re referring to the comment he made during his re-election campaign which was retracted. http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/obama-forced-to-retract-allegation-that-ireland-is-a-tax-haven-26880430.html
Tax Haven, secrecy jurisdictions, call it whatever you want. MLC’s are creating hundred’s of thousands of jobs in Ireland which is ultimately what you’re in favour of and since no law is being broken I don’t see a problem.
If larger, less competitive economies are throwing their toys out of the pram because they can’t compete then that’s just tough cheese.
Respectfully – I have dealt with this issue so many times and the facts are so clear it’s not worth repeating it again