North business tax cut ‘not a threat’

Belfast: A potential cut in the business tax rate in the North to the level in the Republic is not a threat to the Irish economy, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has insisted.

North business tax cut ‘not a threat’

Stormont ministers are lobbying the British Treasury for the power to set their own corporation tax in a bid to kick-start the region’s private sector.

On his first official visit to meet Executive counterparts in Belfast, Mr Gilmore said a tax cut in the North should be viewed as an opportunity for the whole island.

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