Tax advice from the green party :)

Very true Ray, my 07 car was worthless when I tried to change it in 09 so I said feck it I’ll keep for years until I get my money’s worth and it is finally worthless.

Exactly!

Maybe it is time to put an end to all these tax havens. This is the proposal that France is putting forward that companies pay tax depending on where they sell their goods into. Small businesses employing less than 10 people up and down the country are not paying 2.4% tax. If we encouraged more small businesses it would be a positive step. These wealth making companies have to make a fair contribution not running off to the cheapest tax haven. Too much wealth in too few hands is not good for the world.

Think of the net resault please.tax them and perhaps they leave .can we afford that?no .they are a positive influence here even though they get a better deal than the rest of us.don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg.not now at least

Do that and my job along with tens of thousands of others will vanish. That’s a lot of people to be dumping on the dole, that’s a helluva lot of tax revenue to disappear, and that’s a lot of consumer spending eradicated. It will destroy what is left of our floundering economy. Anybody advocating this, is in my opinion, a complete idiot.

Why would your job go barry? There does seem to be room to close the double Irish loop and very marginally increase corp tax, at the moment we are lower than Palestine in corp tax

Many of these companies are here because of the low corporation tax. In return they provide massive employment. Simples.

Oh right. Better not rock the boat is it? Google et al are paying an effective 2.4% on the millions they earn. I have not heard why a 0.5 to 1% would have them leaving in droves. They can afford it and we are pretty well positioned to do it at some point in the near future. Sure by your logic, let’s just drop the corp tax altogether and get loads more mnc’s in. Simples.

It is terrible that Ireland allows such loopholes. It all double think. So the big companies pay little or nothing to pay for government and the less well off. I wonder if we are making anything on their presence after the grants from the Ida are taken into account.

2.4% of billions is better than 0% of f@*k all.

More MNC’s means more employment – that means less unemployment, more tax revenue, more consumer spending. Three positives to help the economy. So from that, an argument to drop corporation tax could be made. A compromise could be a progressive corporation tax rate that is lowered if a company employs over a certain amount of people.

Make no mistake – I’m no corporate loving blueshirt. I couldn’t give a toss about making corporations richer. I just see that Ireland is an export driven economy (one of the biggest software exporters in the world actually) and this should be exploited for our own gain. Do you see the Chinese destroying their own export driven economy just because their neighbours want them to?

And so we thought Google and other MNCs were here because Ire were in the euro area? I think more to do with the pittance they are paying in tax. Says a lot about this country when we have to rely on being a tax haven for the rich.
Catch 22 situation. We have little to no resources.

Pure nonsense. 12.5 tax rate is extremely reasonable, we don’t need companies paying any less. Political debate has been so watered down by all this extreme right-wing lunacy about corporation tax. People should get it into their heads that even in the days of Thatcher and Reagan companies paid way more in tax and it worked fine. ‘Anyone advocating this is a complete idiot’. Say that to a bunch of sensible economists on both the left and right who think all this loophole business is pure non sense.
The very idea that a regular middle-class person who is not a corporate leader would advocate something like this to me…is completely insane, and shows how much we’ve lost the plot as a country.
The idea that despite the recession getting deeper, and austerity only making it worse, people continuing to advocate this absolute madness that got us into this mess, is a joke….and not a very good joke at that.

So Barry. you’re advocating a further shift in the tax burden away from profit and on to work. At what point do you think working people might loose entirely the incentive to work for a tax avoiding MNC, or anyone else for that matter?

They have members and elected representatives (councillors). Should their supporters, though small in number, be dismissed in a democracy?