{"id":11562,"date":"2011-08-19T08:27:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11562"},"modified":"2011-08-19T06:28:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T05:28:22","slug":"its-time-for-northern-ireland-to-get-real-on-corporation-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/19\/its-time-for-northern-ireland-to-get-real-on-corporation-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time for Northern Ireland to get real on corporation tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Belfast Telegraph<\/a> featured an article yesterday where a KPMG partner in Belfast argued Ireland will never give up its low tax rate whatever Merkel and Sarkozy say and that Northern Ireland's tax rate must be cut as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

KPMG are heavily invested in the plan to make\u00a0Northern\u00a0Ireland\u00a0a tax\u00a0haven\u00a0so I am not surprised by the comments. They are, of\u00a0course, amongst the very few who would gain\u00a0from\u00a0this plan which would be massively onerous for the ordinary people of\u00a0Northern\u00a0Ireland.<\/p>\n

In response the Belfast Telegraph reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But anti-poverty campaigner and blogger Richard Murphy said that harmonisation was \"inevitable\" and called for Ireland to \"stop looting other European economies\".<\/p>\n

\"There is no way this tax competition can continue while the Eurozone is so desperate for cash, it is now not a case of 'if' but 'when',\" he said.<\/p>\n

\"Ireland will be picked on, it can bluster all it likes but harmonisation will happen. We must question why Northern Ireland is so desperate to copy a system that is doomed to fail and does not work.<\/p>\n

\"Ireland has already had preferential treatment, it is time for Ireland to grow up and play its part in the international economy and to stop looting other European economies.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u00a0about\u00a0sums it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Belfast Telegraph featured an article yesterday where a KPMG partner in Belfast argued Ireland will never give up its low tax rate whatever Merkel
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