{"id":21761,"date":"2013-07-25T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T09:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21761"},"modified":"2013-07-25T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T09:19:54","slug":"northern-ireland-gets-record-investment-without-a-cut-in-the-tax-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/07\/25\/northern-ireland-gets-record-investment-without-a-cut-in-the-tax-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland get&#8217;s record investment &#8211; without a cut in the tax rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/local-national\/northern-ireland\/foreign-investment-in-northern-ireland-rises-41-in-a-year-29443284.html\" target=\"_blank\">Belfast Telegraph has reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of foreign inward investment projects into\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/searchtopics.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/topic\/Northern_Ireland\">Northern Ireland<\/a>\u00a0has leapt by 41% in the last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) said that compares to an 11% increase in the number of foreign investments in the UK as a whole over the last 12 months, bringing 60,000 new jobs and safeguarding another 110,000 posts.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that's happened without a cut in the corporation tax rate in Norther Ireland, which shows it is just not that important.<\/p>\n<p>Can I now presume that this debate on making Northern Ireland a tax haven is over? I suspect not. The people who want to devastate its economy for personal gain are a little too persistent to believe that evidence will change their minds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Belfast Telegraph has reported: The number of foreign inward investment projects into\u00a0Northern Ireland\u00a0has leapt by 41% in the last year. UK Trade and<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/07\/25\/northern-ireland-gets-record-investment-without-a-cut-in-the-tax-rate\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}