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Does Ireland appreciate U2?

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  • #52
    Mookie Blaylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭Mookie Blaylock


    AndyBoBandy wrote: »
    I work for a global multi national, and of the work I do for the company, €0 is earned in Ireland, so by your logic, I shouldn’t pay any tax in Ireland?

    What jobs have they created in Ireland?

    What are you on about...
    Are you the large multinational??...no...so that ends your argument straight away with

    Google u2 and distillery...I'm on hols


  • #53
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    You don't understand how this tax dodging operates, do you? In tax terms Paul Hewson is a mere employee of his company who is paid a very modest salary out of which he pays income tax to the Irish state. The cars, houses and lifestyle expenses that he benefits from are, in tax terms, company expenses. So, yeah, ironically for your ignorance I probably do pay more income tax in absolute terms to the Irish state than Paul Hewson pays

    That’s really not the ͏w͏a͏y company law works.
    There may be other ways (domicile) that might be used by bono (or not) but that’s bollocks.


  • #54
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    Anyone who plays the tax card is a begrudger.

    I’d bet both my bollocks that if anyone whinging about rich people finding ways to not pay tax came into money, they’d do the exact same.

    You don’t have to like it but using it as a stick to beat them with is a bit hypocritical, in my opinion.


  • #55
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,729 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Mookie Blaylock wrote: »
    Google u2 and distillery...I'm on hols

    And what jobs have they created?

    A plan to invest in and restore an old distillery is not actual jobs, where people work and pay tax.
    maybe in the future it will be, but in the present, it's nothing more than a planning application.
    Mookie Blaylock wrote: »
    they create jobs in the country already

    So what jobs have they created in the country already?


  • #56
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    I would like to shove the other three up Bono’s Ar$e and the beat Bono to death with a Joshua Tree .


  • #57
    MarkY91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,068 ✭✭✭MarkY91


    I'm certainly not from a time where I should naturally appreciate their music. The only song I remember in the charts growing up is the it's a beautiful day song..can't even be sure if that's U2.

    But I've grown up in a country where it seems popular and cool to hate bono. I've no idea why but propel my she hate him


  • #58
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Anesthetize wrote: »
    I appreciate Echo and the Bunnymen.
    I appreciate both Echo and The Bunnymen and U2 (up to Zooropa).


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