Ireland’s personal tax rates will be a “major disincentive” when competing for highly mobile remote workers, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said. The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment said the State needed to “face up to that reality” or see high-paying jobs and associated tax revenues lost overseas. “Remote working presents huge opportunities as well as risks,” Mr Varadkar told The Irish Times on Friday. “If you can remote work for a big company from your home in rural Ireland you can also from an island in the Mediterranean,” he said, adding there are 50,000 remote jobs currently on offer in Europe. Eligible Facebook Ireland employees can relocate full-time to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and the UK.

Source: The Irish Times June 12, 2021 04:52 UTC