And it’s hard to craft a Budget when you’re watched by Olli Rehn: Open Letter to soon-to-be European overlords
This blog post takes the form of an open letter to Commissioner Olli Rehn, who has twice in successive months pronounced that Ireland must give up its status as a “low tax economy”. The letter goes through the government’s revenues, heading by heading, and argues Ireland already is a normal tax country. Indeed, with corporate tax revenues almost twice as large in Ireland as in Germany, the mooted doubling of Ireland’s corporate tax rate is one of the last “solutions” the country needs. Read more