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Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Bill (27 Jan 2015)

Jim Shannon: ...with the latter’s attractive corporation tax level, as the shadow Secretary of State pointed out earlier, and it is little wonder, given that its tax rate is 12.5%, compared to our 21%. The ability to set our own tax rate will make that a thing of the past and put us in a better place to compete with the Republic of Ireland, as well as with our Scottish, Welsh and English counterparts....

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Bill (27 Jan 2015)

Margaret Ritchie: ...Ireland. We took evidence, in sessions spanning a six-month period, from a range of people, some of whom were pivotal in raising the issue of the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly having the ability to set our own rate of corporation tax. Central among them were the late Sir George Quigley, and Mr Hewitt from the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland. From the research that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Bill (27 Jan 2015)

Laurence Robertson: ...with common visa arrangements. All that is sensible. To me, that is not about green or orange; it is not about Britain or a united Ireland. These are sensible measures. Giving the Assembly the ability to cut the rate of corporation tax in Northern Ireland to compete with the south would be a simple and sensible arrangement, and there is a need to do it. As we have seen from the economic...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Corporation Tax (Northern Ireland) Bill (27 Jan 2015)

Sammy Wilson: ...are important because one of the fastest-growing sectors in the higher wage end of the Northern Ireland economy has been those back-office financial services jobs. We would not want to lose the ability to attract them. There is provision in the Bill to allow for that. Whether they are brought as separate or spur companies to the main company, they will nevertheless be subject to the new...


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