Claire Aiken
I’M NOT sure there has ever been a policy which hasn’t actually seen the cold light of day that has been more lobbied, discussed, written about or broadcast than the implementation of corporation tax powers in Northern Ireland.
The old clichés of six or seven years ago still ring loud, ‘it’s not the panacea but it’s a game changer’. Granted, legislation was passed at Westminster in 2015 to devolve powers to the Executive to support the undoubted potential for an uplift in foreign direct investment and of course enable the North to compete with the fine-tuned tax policy south of the border.