Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton said that she didn’t want to speculate on what would happen if Ireland voted against the fiscal compact treaty.
Spokesperson for the Irish Taxi Federation, John Ussher, and Taxi Regulator Kathleen Doyle have responded to the claims made in last night’s programme about taxi drivers in Ireland.
BRIAN COWEN has labelled suggestions that he sounded hungover on a radio industry this morning as “a new low in Irish politics” – and insisted he will continue to give early-morning radio interviews in future. Opposition politicians and public commentators alike had said Cowen had sounded the worse for wear on Morning Ireland today.
AT A HIGH-profile US Senate meeting, technology giant Apple was accused of using Ireland as a ‘tax haven’.
The multinational firm, which employs 4,000 people in Ireland, reportedly avoided paying €34 billion in US taxes by negotiating a tax rate of less than 2 per cent with the Irish government – significantly lower than that nation’s 12.5 per cent statutory rate.
The Senate heard that American children are losing out on education because Apple is transferring profits to Irish subsidiaries.
However, the Taoiseach Enda Kenny has denied that Ireland is a tax haven and rejected claims that authorities had negotiated deals with multi-national companies.
So, today we want to know, what do you think? Should Ireland be tougher on multi-national companies when it comes to tax?
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BRIAN COWEN has labelled suggestions that he sounded hungover on a radio industry this morning as “a new low in Irish politics” – and insisted he will continue to give early-morning radio interviews in future. Opposition politicians and public commentators alike had said Cowen had sounded the worse for wear on Morning Ireland today.
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