Ryan Ellis (left) of the Americans for Tax Reform making the case for Ireland being a poster child for low corporate taxation.
Our corporate tax rates aren’t low.
The US tax rates are too high.
Or something.
A presentation in Dublin on international tax and Ireland by free market lobbyists Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) chaired by Eamon Delaney – urging Ireland to resist EU tax harmonisation, keep our 12.5 per cent (and usually a lot less) corporation tax rate.
Eamon writes:
The ATR philosophy is quite specific and for many even provocative : that companies are being over taxed generally, especially in the US, thus driving them overseas and creating phenomena like inversion and the double Irish and the Luxembourg situation….
Seems fair.
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Jaysus. Go back. Our taxes are WAY too low. Absolutely no need for the US to drop their rates…..
12.5 is pretty low. But what they actually pay is paltry. instead of the whole world dropping it’s rates to match our 2% for multinationals, why don’t we all raise it to a reasonable level so that society can consistently actually benefit from the companies it spawns?
that’s commie talk, you know…
The Irish tax rate is a matter for the Irish people. Why the other 87.5% of the tax doesn’t go back to U.S. schools and social services is a matter for the U.S. people.
Still, they’re taking the piss.
It strikes me that if Google can spend 100s of Ks on a party then they can pay more tax.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/google-splash-out-300k-on-christmas-party-for-dublin-staff-654516.html
And then there’s this:
Google’s 2,200 “miracle” workers in Ireland produces 41% of the world sales but on a worldwide basis the search engine giant employed 53,861 full-time employees. (2012). How could this possibly be?
http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1026612.shtml
Guy with the glasses sitting on the righthand side is in the zone! Go get ’em, tiger!!
He really should be doing pyramid fingers, though.
Hey, If it wasn’t for the yanks, you’d all be speaking german now.
Hang on: if that were the case, the Germans would be speaking English.
And they’re not really free market enthusiasts. Free market when it suits them.
They like public money when it suits them alright.
I thought that the amount you can do in R&D write offs meant the effective tax rate was less than 12.5% for research heavy companies.
wow, multi-national anti-social corporations trying to tell sovereign governments what to do – what type of banana republic would let them dictate how to tax and run a state….oh..
f*ck it – tax the sh*t out of the native workers in those firms….