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Updated: 12:07
TWO PEOPLE HAVE been taken to hospital after a road traffic collision this morning on the M50 northbound in Dublin.
The single vehicle collision, in which a car overturned, took place just before the Blanchardstown exit and traffic is moving slowly.
Five units of the fire brigade and at least two ambulances attended at the scene.
It is understood that two people were taken to Blanchardstown Hospital with minor injuries.
Gardaí had diversions in place but the road has been cleared now.
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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.
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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