Ireland has issued a statement on its international tax strategy. It has to be said much of this is PR and an implausible defence of
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Northern Ireland get’s record investment – without a cut in the tax rate
As the Belfast Telegraph has reported: The number of foreign inward investment projects into Northern Ireland has leapt by 41% in the last year. UK Trade and
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Ireland isn’t a tax haven according to the OECD – who get described as a damp squib in return
According to the Irish Times: Ireland is emphatically not a tax haven, according to the head of the tax division of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation
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Vince Cable stokes the debate on a separate tax rate for Northern Ireland
Vince Cable discussed a 12.5% corporation tax rate for Northern ireland on the Stephen Nolan show this morning. Listen here. He made two claims. The first was that the
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Catholic bishops to G8: paying tax is a ‘moral obligation’
As the Guardian has noted this morning: Cardinal Brady, the head of Ireland’s Catholic church, has urged G8leaders to make good on their pledge to tackle
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Ireland is a tax haven. Why do they bother to deny it?
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
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Ireland denies it’s a tax haven, which is the surest sign that it is one
The FT has reported that: Dublin [has] strongly rejected allegations contained in a US Senate Committee report that it is a tax haven But then every tax
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Ireland is a doormat state when it comes to tax: a place where companies wipe the dirt from their feet and move their money on
Ireland is claiming today that it is not reposnible for Apple paying low rates of tax. Quite emphatically that is not true. Ireland is completely
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If you thought the economic crisis in Ireland was all over, it may not have even begun yet
As the FT reports this morning: [In Ireland] evictions are expected to rise after the EU, ECB and IMF insisted banks repossess more houses. One
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