Tax take to plummet as 1 in 3 shoppers break for border
Red C poll shows border counties to be decimated; Surge in traffic to British online retailers as pound falls
The state is facing a haemorrhage of tax revenues, with new figures revealing that one third of all shoppers in the Republic plan to cross the border to the North for their Christmas shopping to take advantage of the slump in sterling.The situation is amplified in border counties, with the data showing that 56 per cent of people living in those counties will travel north.
The scale of the shopping exodus, revealed in ...
