The Irish Government of the 21st century is significantly less worried about bothering the church. Fortunately.
They probably were encouraged to sign it to facilitate The Great Land sale. Or whatever it ended up being called. It got rid of old Ghost estates lying un-lived in for years, while at the same time opening up the economy to knew investment. The Garda Unit for the Bizarre and Unprecedented (GUBU) generally handles most wavium related details, from criminal investigations, to licensing and safety courses. There is a lot of regulation and hoops to jump through, but at the same time it's legal to make and sell hardware. There's bound to be some lobbying going on inside the government from those with a stake in improving relations with space.
And quite a few developers might fund the reelection campaigns of County Councillors to ensure their dying estates are rezoned for 'Removal in Situ', along with the ones that have fallen into State ownership through NAMA.
Also the tax regime here has a wonderful little quirk that allows you to remove your profits tax free through the use of transfer pricing, as there is no tax on sales within a business. So Arther could have a fenspace based corporation that charges licensing fees to his Ireland based corporation that just happen to eat up all of the year's operating profits. It's a little more complicated than that, or course, but that's the basic jist. The reasoning behind it is, that the tax is recouped from employees and from any additional economic activity generated by having work, or from the company buying from local suppliers.
It has the benefit of bloody annoying the Americans. And is about the only thing that makes the economy competitive which is why the corporate tax-regime is defended to the death by our politicians in Europe.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
They probably were encouraged to sign it to facilitate The Great Land sale. Or whatever it ended up being called. It got rid of old Ghost estates lying un-lived in for years, while at the same time opening up the economy to knew investment. The Garda Unit for the Bizarre and Unprecedented (GUBU) generally handles most wavium related details, from criminal investigations, to licensing and safety courses. There is a lot of regulation and hoops to jump through, but at the same time it's legal to make and sell hardware. There's bound to be some lobbying going on inside the government from those with a stake in improving relations with space.
And quite a few developers might fund the reelection campaigns of County Councillors to ensure their dying estates are rezoned for 'Removal in Situ', along with the ones that have fallen into State ownership through NAMA.
Also the tax regime here has a wonderful little quirk that allows you to remove your profits tax free through the use of transfer pricing, as there is no tax on sales within a business. So Arther could have a fenspace based corporation that charges licensing fees to his Ireland based corporation that just happen to eat up all of the year's operating profits. It's a little more complicated than that, or course, but that's the basic jist. The reasoning behind it is, that the tax is recouped from employees and from any additional economic activity generated by having work, or from the company buying from local suppliers.
It has the benefit of bloody annoying the Americans. And is about the only thing that makes the economy competitive which is why the corporate tax-regime is defended to the death by our politicians in Europe.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?