“That’s fundamentally wrong”
Few appreciate how vulnerable Ireland is to a downturn.
Ireland collected $1.2 billion of corporate tax in July
Breaking our own fiscal rules; expecting others to subsidise our defence; lecturing the rest of the EU on foreign policy. It’s a bad combination.
“Let’s dare to be different.”
One of the great temptations when you write about policy and politics for a living is to surrender to your prior prejudices when covering any story. It is fair to say that my prior prejudices about recent Irish policy are as follows: That harmonising our corporate taxation rates was a grievous error, likely to drive […]
I’ll try and do better in 2022
If the Government had any decency, it would resign in disgrace.
In 2008, when the last great disaster befell us, there was a moment of post-fall clarity. “Yes”, the media said, “too many dissenters were shouted down. There was a Groupthink problem. It should never happen again”.
Joe Biden wants a global minimum corporate tax, as you may have heard. Here’s the summary from the Financial Times: The Biden administration is calling for the world’s biggest multinational companies to pay levies to national governments based on their sales in each country, as part of an ambitious proposal for a global minimum tax. […]