Time to tax corporations at the international rate

THERE is one way to fix our broken economy.

The Government should shift the tax burden from workers to corporations. PAYE workers pay twice as much in income tax as the total yielded from corporation tax. Low taxes no longer attract foreign companies to Ireland. Let’s set corporation tax at the level of other countries.Maybe we should let Brussels tell our Government how to tax us fairly.

Michael Mernagh

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