Cutting corporation tax – should it be N Ireland’s big plan? #BBCNolan
May 30, 2016, 09:33 AM
It's one of the big ideas at Stormont for boosting our economy. Cutting corporation tax - that's the tax on profits. It's currently 20%. But Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness are committed to introducing 12.5% here in 2018. The plan doesn't get a direct mention in the new Stormont Programme for Government. But it's clearly centre stage in the executive's plans.
But critics - for instance in the trade union world - remain unconvinced