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DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland dropped its opposition to an overhaul of global corporate tax rules on Thursday, agreeing to give up its prized 12.5% tax for large multinationals in a major boost to efforts to impose a minimum rate worldwide.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: Commuters make their way into work in the morning in the financial district of Dublin, Ireland October 18, 2018. REUTERS\/Clodagh Kilcoyne<\/figcaption>

Ireland, the low-tax European headquarters for blue chip companies including Apple, Google and Facebook, declined to sign up to the initial deal in July, objecting to a proposed rate of \u201cat least\u201d 15%.<\/p>\n

An updated text this week dropped the \u201cat least\u201d, clearing the way for ministers to do what successive governments said they would never contemplate – giving up the low rate that has helped win Ireland investments and jobs for decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoining this agreement is an important decision for the next stage of Ireland\u2019s industrial policy – a decision that will ensure that Ireland is part of the solution,\u201d Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe told a news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a difficult and complex decision but I believe it is the right one.\u201d<\/p>\n

All bar a handful of the 140 countries involved signed up to the July deal, brokered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), that marked the first rewriting of international tax rules in a generation.<\/p>\n

The holdouts, which include fellow EU members Estonia and Hungary, cannot block the proposed changes. The 140 negotiating countries are due to meet on Friday to finalise the deal.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Treasury, which had pressed Ireland to support the global minimum tax, hailed Dublin\u2019s decision as putting the world on a path toward a \u201cgenerational achievement\u201d to ensure corporations pay their fair share of taxes.<\/p>\n

If Ireland had maintained its lower rate, multinationals that book profits there could be forced to pay the additional tax elsewhere under the proposals.<\/p>\n

The government said it had received assurances from the European Commission that Ireland can maintain the 12.5% rate for firms with annual turnover below 750 million euros ($867 million) and keep tax incentives for research and development.<\/p>\n

The Commission also promised it will stick faithfully to the OECD agreement and not seek a higher rate among member states, Donohoe said.<\/p>\n

\u2018NO SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT\u2019<\/p>\n

While Ireland wrestled with the prospective changes for months, it will not be the first change to its tax regime.<\/p>\n

A 10% tax rate convinced Apple to set up a manufacturing facility in the 1980s, with Microsoft and Intel following suit.<\/p>\n

The government increased this to 12.5% in 1997 to comply with EU state aid rules and multinational jobs mushroomed.<\/p>\n

The 12.5% rate was fiercely defended in the intervening years, most notably when Ireland came under pressure to raise it as part of a 2010 international bailout.<\/p>\n

Many analysts expect Ireland to remain competitive in the battle to attract foreign direct investment.<\/p>\n

Some 1,500 multinationals that will be hit by the higher rate currently employ around 400,000 people or one in six workers in Ireland, Donohoe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would be reasonably confident that this won\u2019t have a substantial impact,\u201d said Kieran McQuinn, research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) think tank.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a country matures, other factors such as the flexibility of our workforce (and) membership of the EU tend to become very important as well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

($1 = 0.8649 euros)<\/p>\n

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