Eddie Hobbs: Flat tax regime a much better option

A much better system than the current corporate free-for-all is a flat tax regime, says Eddie Hobbs

Writing in the Industrial Age, French writer Voltaire advised “On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées,” a rough translation of which is that an invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

It’s twilight in the bog for Ireland’s decades-old soft corporate tax policy as the struggle between concentrated corporate wealth and sovereigns moves up a gear, crushing Ireland’s undertaking with Apple underfoot.