I'm not sure what the point you're making is. The country's corporate tax rate was only reduced to 12.5% in the late '90s. Before that, it was comparable to oth

I'm not sure what the point you're making is. The country's corporate tax rate was only reduced to 12.5% in the late '90s. Before that, it was comparable to other that of other EU nations. The reduction in the rate, along with other factors, helped the economy to grow over the next 15 years, to the point where the country became a net contributor. It would have happened well before 2014 had the Irish economy not been reeling from the effects of the 2008 crash.