Taoiseach Leo Varadkar wasted no time in delivering a riposte to President Donald Trump’s claim that Ireland was planning to reduce its corporate tax rate to just eight percent. “It is indeed fake news,” Varadkar told the Dáil today with a wry smile. There was no such plan to reduce the rate from its current 12.5 percent and that rate would remain for “a very long time.” Oireachtas TV photo.
