{"id":60426,"date":"2025-10-04T04:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60426\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:55:08","slug":"willie-odea-our-eu-neighbours-might-not-like-it-but-irelands-tax-strategy-is-ingenious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/60426\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie O\u2019Dea: Our EU neighbours might not like it, but Ireland\u2019s tax strategy is ingenious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We cannot afford to go back to being the sick man of Europe, relying on EU handouts for survival\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Today, 55pc of all of Ireland\u2019s entire tax take is attributable to foreign corporations. Stock image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/e596819c-da14-4c3c-aa33-db23cac4bab2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Today, 55pc of all of Ireland\u2019s entire tax take is attributable to foreign corporations. Stock image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland\u2019s income tax system is a curious blend of simplicity and strategic complexity. The system for taxing companies is certainly simple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Since 2003, we have had a single low fixed rate (12.5pc) tax on the profits of companies. That unvarying figure creates the aura of stability, which investors crave. Ireland has now signed up to a new 15pc rate on the profits of larger companies. However, for the vast majority, the 12.5pc sanctuary remains in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We cannot afford to go back to being the sick man of Europe, relying on EU handouts for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2244,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-60426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-eu","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}