Politics
Ireland won’t cede its tax veto, Harris says
The taoiseach was responding to a report by a former Italian premier which recommended the EU should strip countries’ tax vetoes in crisis situations
Ireland will not accept any EU moves to remove its veto on national tax matters, the taoiseach has said.
Simon Harris was responding to a report published earlier today by Enrico Letta, the former Italian prime minister, which recommended the EU could remove national tax vetoes if the single market came under threat.
“We have gone as far as we will go in relation to that matter,” Harris told reporters ahead of a two-day EU ...
