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Can Ireland prove that it isn’t a ‘tax scam’?

27 March 2025

12:08 AM

27 March 2025

12:08 AM

Howard Lutnick, former CEO of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, and now Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration, has quickly attained the status of pantomime villain in Ireland.

Last year, Lutnick criticised Ireland’s tax arrangements, saying ‘It’s nonsense that Ireland of all places runs a trade surplus at our expense.’

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