Pourquoi l'Irlande a-t-elle vu son PIB par tête augmenter de 167%entre 1984 et 2004, alors que la Belgique n'a vu le sien n'augmenter que de 36% (soit à peu près la performance Française, on aurait tort de se moquer...) pendant ces 20 mêmes années ?
Un petit indice dans ce post du brillantissime Enplaned, consacré aux déboires de certaines compagnies aériennes d'Europe continentale (LCC="low cost company" ou "low cost carrier"):
Branson bought a little charter outfit called EuroBelgian Airlines and turned it into Virgin Express.(...)
The problem with Belgium is that it has some of the highest “social charges” in the European Union. That means the European equivalent of social security taxes related to employment. So if you’re looking to establish a European LCC, doing so in Belgium is a bad idea, especially when other guys like easyJet and Ryanair are based in low social-charge countries like the UK and Ireland.
There are a lot of reasons why Ryanair is so profitable, a big one is that Irish corporate taxes are low. Ryanair’s tax rate is in the low teens (for the quarter ended Sep 30, 2005, it was 10.4%), whereas that of easyJet (based in the UK) is significantly higher 29.7% for its financial year ending Sep 30, 2005, adjusting for goodwill amortization. We’ve never been entirely sure why all new European LCCs aren’t established in Ireland (presumably other European countries have ways of making life unpleasant ?)
Rien à ajouter. Pour ceux qui veulent en savoir plus sur le miracle Irlandais, je vous renvoie à cette ancienne note.
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