20.5.10

Novas revelações sobre o milagre irlandês

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Isto parece-me muito instrutivo:
"Ireland’s problems are, sadly, far deeper than the need for simple fiscal austerity. The Celtic tiger’s impressive reported growth over the past decades was in part based on its aggressive attempts to help major corporations in the United States reduce their tax bills. The Irish government set corporate taxes at just 12.5 percent of profits, thus attracting all sorts of businesses — from computer services such as Google and Yahoo, to drug companies such as Forest Labs — that set up corporate bases and washed profits through Ireland to keep them out of the hands of the Internal Revenue Service.

"The remarkable success of this tax haven means that roughly 20 percent of Irish gross domestic product (G.D.P.) is actually “profit transfers” that raise little tax for Ireland and are owned by foreign companies. Since most of these profits are subject to the tax code, they are accounted for in Ireland where they are lightly taxed; they should not be counted as part of Ireland’s potential tax base. A more robust cross-country comparison would be to examine Ireland’s financial condition ignoring these transfers. This is easy to do: a nation’s gross national product excludes the profits of foreign residents. For most nations, gross national product and G.D.P. are near-identical, but in Ireland they are not."
Aguardo ansiosamente os esclarecimentos dos nossos especialistas em economia irlandesa.
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4 comentários:

jj.amarante disse...

Isso foi o que me disse um colega irlandês há uma meia-dúzia de anos quando eu lhe referia o grande crescimento irlandês. Que uma grande parte era devida à sobre-facturação das filiais das multinacionais lá instaladas, não correspondendo a criação de riqueza na Irlanda.

Anónimo disse...

ahahahahahah!!
Sempre desconfiei de tigres...celtas

Anónimo disse...

Pois! Pela Portela passaram muitas toneladas de medicamentos "oriundas" de Dublin para o Brasil...e ... talvez seja pelo mesmo motivo que os Açores exportam medicamentos, em muito menor escala... mas é estranho ... ou não?

Diogo disse...

Este tigre celta, tal como os asiáticos não passam de tigres de papel nas mãos vampiros internacionais.