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Tue 11 Nov 2010Berlin backs down on issue of raising corporation tax
GERMANY:GERMANY HAS admitted defeat in its ambition to see corporate tax rise in Ireland and confirmed it is opposed to EU tax harmonisation.
In recent weeks, senior German officials viewed Ireland’s economic difficulties as a chance to remove this corporate tax thorn in Berlin’s side under the guise of shrinking Ireland’s banking sector to a healthy size.
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