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| “In my day it was always good,” says Frank Allen |
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| A 10 second question - When will the recession end and get us back to the good old days? |
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| MT: Amazing that none of the panel on have a bog's notion about how large companies avoid tax in the Republic. |
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| MT : There is actually a power relationship problem between nation states and big business. |
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| “What we are hearing, quite frankly, is cloud cuckoo economics,” says Ian Paisley Jr |
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| On ’s point, the super-rich are 'hiding' at least $21tn in tax havens - |
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| MT: Very simple have LOW corporate tax rate & UK transaction tax OFFSET against corporate tax not to increase tax burden |
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| “We are reducing corporation tax but we want to make sure big business pays its fair share,” says Theresa Villiers |
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| MT: Companies will pay the lowest amount tax allowed by law, the same as a citizen. They shouldn't be attacked for that. |
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| “If Apple is right… I think it’s scandalous,” says |
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| For wider context, “Apple, Ireland, and the corporate tax rate problem,” says - |
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| Q: Is the Republic of Ireland a safe haven for international corporate tax avoidance? |
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| MT: Plato lived in a slave-owning society. What qualification did he have to speak of morals? |
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| “Up until [1971], there was no legal impediment to people of the same sex getting married,” says |
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| On "moral" issue, Plato wrote same-sex lovers were more blessed than ordinary mortals, then changed his mind |
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| “Think again and allow that [gay marriage] to happen,” says |
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