Ireland's deficit will be eliminated before 2018, according to Irish finmin Michael Noonan. Five years ago, Ireland had the highest deficit in the €-zone.
Ireland collected 7.5% (€3bn) more in tax receipts in November than expected, with large increases in corporate tax receipts and VAT receipts. The result: Ireland's 2015 deficit will be 1.7%, not the previously expected 2.1%.
Selling state-owned bank shares has also helped Ireland lower its deficit.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/12/02/uk-ireland-economy-tax-idUKKBN0TL1XK20151202
Ireland's strategy of low corporation taxes (AFAIK) seems to have worked.
The Keynesians in the EU have already pressured Ireland into spending the increased tax incomes.
>>4650
>Ireland's strategy of low corporation taxes (AFAIK) seems to have worked.
By providing a tax haven to multinationals, Ireland is basically just stealing tax money from the rest of europe, and their economy is entirely reliant on that fact. Fuck em
>>5758
>being this mad
Think of it the world in less national terms and more like a market, the prices are not cost but tax levels. These corporations want to move around to avoid taxes above what they believe is acceptable or whatever. Plenty of tax havens already exist, scores of Caribbean islands for example. This should be less, "Fuck them blah blah blah fair share blah blah blah," and more learning from their example. We live in a globalized world and the West needs to learn to compete again, these are Western ideas/concepts.
>>5796
When everybody lowers taxes you are not getting anywhere. You're just losing money to multinational companies.
>>5813
How? Since when is their money yours by any measure?
>>5854
Since society as a whole has an agreement that certain amounts out of all earnings go to the benefit of the community as a whole. That's the point of taxes.
Everybody wants streets, and that includes big companies because they need to transport their goods. Who's going to pay for them?
>>5854
A portion of that money is society's, because society provides much of the underlying infrastructure that allowed the companies to be profitable in the first place. For instance, nearly all product research uses tax-funded facilities and gets government grants to encourage R&D in its early stages. That's not something you can argue about, all large corporations owe their success, in part, to government-funded infrastructure and grants. If they are not paying taxes in the country that facilitated their development, they are stealing from that country.
>>5854
Multinationals can do most of their actual business in large, properly taxed nations, but if they move their head offices to tax havens they can escape paying their dues to those nations that actually sustain them. Taxes exists to sustain society and tax avoidance is not justified.
Currency isn't a universally legitimate property, it's a tool of the state it's created in.
>>5758
If you lived in a house in which the owners regularly beat you, you'd move to a house with kinder owners, methinks.
>>6119
>making lots of money
>still complaining
We're not talking about small shops here.
We are talking about stuff the size of amazon, google and facebook. Big enough to actually get something out of having a small mini-brand in Ireland just for the sake of taxes.
>>1
Benis
>>5758
There's a term for it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_bottom
Essentially it's a globalist version of the tragedy of the commons
>>6119
No, it's more like if an 18 year old boy lived with his mother and refused to do any chores but still expected dinner to be served to him.
>>6256
Stay mad, government shill
I bet you think it's still "unpatriotic" too
>>7338
>"unpatriotic"
No, it's plain theft. If you don't care what happens with your money, or if you're one of the people doing the stealing, feel free to support tax havens.
Otherwise you'd be bloody stupid to like them.
>>7346
>not wanting people to take the money you worked for is now stealing
>>8443
Your greentext is a grammatical nightmare. Please try again.
>>8443
Ok mr anarchist so who's going to pay for roads and power lines that make business possible? Who's going to pay for the public services that keep the workforce healthy, safe and educated?
