The Irish Times has noted: The [Irish] government has told the European Commission that imminent moves to introduce pan-European rules on the taxation of business
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PWC say Northern Ireland should not cut tax rate
I have written more than I ever expected to on the proposal that Northern Ireland should cut its tax rate to 12.5% in an attempt
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The Tories – dedicated to making it tax haven UK
I gather that Associated Press have reported this morning that Northern Ireland political leaders have been handed a government paper on devolving corporation tax powers
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Moody’s says Ireland’s austerity programme won’t work
The Guardian notes: Ireland’s credit rating has been slashed by five notches by Moody’s, which also warned that the country faced an increasingly uncertain economic
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Heads in the sand in Northern Ireland
The Belfast Telegraph has a story today that says: Another group of Northern Ireland business leaders has waded into the row over the proposed lowering
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It hasn’t worked for Ireland and it won’t work now (for them or us)
As the Guardian notes this morning: Ireland reluctantly began four years of tax rises and brutal cuts to social welfare after its parliament narrowly passed
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Bono Aid
From the First Post: Amid all the debate about Ireland’s financial woes and the subsequent bailout by British and European taxpayers, one voice has remained
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Ireland’s bail out will fail – others agree
I wrote a day or two back that the Irish bail out was bound to fail. I’ve also drawn attention to the obvious parallell with
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Northern Ireland corporation tax move slammed
I was on Radio Ulster this morning. The following article on the local BBC web site has resulted: A leading tax expert has said that
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