Pressure 'increasing over corporation tax' in North

The British government is coming under increasing pressure from the business community outside Northern Ireland for a more competitive corporation tax level, a Stormont Assembly Committee chairman claimed today.

As David Varney prepared to meet finance minister Peter Robinson in Belfast today to discuss his review of taxation policy affecting the North, Sinn Féin’s Mitchel McLaughlin criticised the Treasury’s one-size-fits-all approach to the economy.