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EACH DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you should know with your morning cup of coffee.
1. #ROAD DEATH: A man in his 40s has been killed in a single vehicle collision in Dundalk last night. The man, who was the sole occupant of the car, was seriously injured and was taken to hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses.
2. #ROBBERY: A convicted bank robber has been awarded €150,000 after being slashed across the face and body by another inmate at Wheatfieled prison. The decision has sparked outrage among politicians, the Irish Daily Mail reports, with Fianna Fáil saying it may set a dangerous precedent that would cost the State a huge amount of money in the future.
3. #HEALTH INSURANCE: Insurers have warned that the government’s proposed new public bed charge, included in legislation published yesterday, will lead to an increase of over 30 per cent in premiums. Insurance Ireland said that the move could also discourage people from buying private insurance and destabilise the market in Ireland.
4. #HADDINGTON ROAD: The union representing 6,000 members of the public sector has said that its ballot overwhelmingly rejected the Haddington Road proposals. Unite representatives say they are now considering legal advice regarding aspects of the legislation passed by the government to cut public sector pay.
5. #RIP: The funeral of three brothers who drowned off the coast of Waterford this week while fishing, will take place today. Yesterday the family of Shane, Paul and Kenneth Bulger asked mourner to make donations to the RNLI instead of buying flowers.
6. #SEANAD: The latest Irish Times/Ipos MRBI poll has shown that 55 per cent of people want to see the Seanad abolished. Younger voters were the weakest supporters of the abolition with 62 per cent of Fine Gael supporters backing it.
7. #PINTS: There was a five per cent increase in profits for the Dáil bar last year, the Irish Independent reports this morning. The restaurant also made a bigger profit last year of €152,332 feeding hungry politicians .
8. #IRAN: Early results in Iran’s election indicate moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani has taken the lead, bolstered by a late surge in support from supressed Iranian reformists, AFP reports. The first round results gave Rowhani 52 percent of the vote, more than three times as many as his nearest rival.
9. #I SPY: Facebook has revealed that it received up to 10,000 requests for user data from US government entities in the second half of last year alone. BBC reports that the social-networking site said the requests covered issues from local crime to national security.
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Reduce the corporate tax rate to 0 just to piss the EU and IMF off.
Its already practically zero.
They should investigate the Swiss banks if they want money, every tax dodging crook on the planet have their I’ll gotten gains hidden away there.
Yeah! That’ll show those rich snobs who couldn’t care less about our country…
oh wait that’s the corporations too
F them let them sort out corporate tax in America.
US firms will continue to flee the nation that administers the highest corporate tax rate in the west. If not to Ireland then elsewhere.
ah boo hoo!, in all honesty Google or Microsoft and rest make better use of their profits and reserves if the only other option is giving it to the US government to p1ss away on their forever wars!
The eye of the World is focused on our tax rate more than ever. Eventually Ireland will buckle and the flood gates will open with a mass exodus of money and company’s. Ireland will be like a ghost land.
All the signs of what is to come are here but as usual we will ignore it but this focus will not go away.
A good example of this is the 9 out of 10 who thought there was no property bubble.
Makes sense considering that about 90% of people are either ignorant or idiotic
It will be worse than the 80′s if the big companies leave.
Thought it already was
What I thought Enda was on record as saying this isn’t happening?
Ireland is sadly gaining a very bad reputation internationally!
Low Corporation Tax -max 12.5% many Companies pay a lot less!. It’s a disgrace!
While individuals pay up to 8o% – Vat at 23%,Income Tax, PRSI, Levies, Local Property Tax and now Water Rates!
The Government should change the Law on Corporation Tax so that Companies pay a minimum of 12.5% of their declared profits!
There are a lot of exclamation marks in that comment. Must be true.
I think he borrowed the exclamation marks from Clare Daly…
Oh sh!t, the IMF don’t like our tax. Wait to see our pols brought to heel like the b!tches they are.
Great for jobs and the local economy though.
Some of them dont employ very many in ireland, one in particular just halved its irish workforce to a couple of hundred and pays 2 %tax
In the majority of cases Irish are hired such as apple, emc, boston scientific……. and the list goes on.
The world according to the IMF:
Competition between companies to provide lower prices to consumers = Good
Competition between countries to provide lower expenses to companies = Bad
Seems fairly contrived.
There is no such thing as a “worldwide taxation system”, but national taxation systems.
Anyone could be lead to believe that the IMF is a creature of US foreign policy.
What sickn me how stupid some people are the other reason why our government dosen tax these companies is they all ready make to much from our hard earned wage tax n other taxes, if they just taxed these companies just a little more we all as citizens could live in a tax free Ireland or very low tax rate Ireland. We could be one of the greatest countries to live and work in if we just changed a little and stud up more.
I read your comment a couple of times to be sure. I’m certain that the first line of it refers to yourself.
Meaning??
We should be so proud.
Why should we be proud Dan?
Because we lay down to Geithner and the bondholder losses?
Or because we have not yet complied with US/EU bullying regarding our corporate tax rates?
It seems the Irish taxpayer is more firmly in the sights of the Obama administration than ISIS and Syria’s despotic regime.
It’s only a matter of time before these companies leave here. It’s going to be a disaster , thousands upon thousands of job losses year after year.
Cop on. only a complete twit thinks the bug american corpos are here cos they only pay a small tax on their profits. They are here cos they make huge profits, politically safe and well educated workers.
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