British Expats - "The Sandpit" ?

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Originally Posted by HiHo (Post 12977308)

Ireland's GDP is not REAL GDP its just Amazon shagging the EU senseless. Ireland's plan to drive economic growth was through very very bad corporate tax law none of the revenue actually ends up in the chancellery but the corporates do have to employ people locally. That is how Ireland got unemployment down to 6%. The EU hate it but the Irish have infiltrated the EU finance commission so they don't have any option but to pursue the matter through the courts. Again when Brexit was being negotiated the EUFC campaigned for financial Jobs to be moved to the EU thinking that would mean Dublin. Did anyone believe a commodities trader was actually physically going to move to Dublin or any other sh*t hole come to that? The banks are just kicking the issue down an endless road to nowhere but exactly where they are. Scotland would be in even worse sh*t because the government shifted publish sector jobs there to address the unemployment. The minuet Scotland gets independence 20% of jobs disappear overnight.

Ireland is a knowledge based economy, if your definition of real GDP is restricted to tangible products then you are really going to struggle in the 21st century.

Amazon are based in Luxembourg not Ireland. They don't even have a .ie domain website

Time and again the European courts have ruled the tax rates are perfectly legal, see the last Apple case for example. Lowest tax rates in Europe are in places like Hungary and Cyprus not Ireland. Our headline rates are similar to most European rates - this idea of lower rates is propagated on the basis of trying to move large corporates out of Ireland. All is fair in love and war, so these cases are typical.

Unemployment was at 4% at it's lowest due to construction employment and the housing bubble of cheap credit.

The first thing to be agreed in the Brexit negotiations were the financial agreements, London massively dominates the world financial services market, there was no leverage or bargaining power to change that in any meaningful way.