Claim: Irish GDP per head was lower than the UK before they cut corporation tax, and it's now 50% higher.
Fact-check: Would a corporation tax cut more than pay for itself, as Jeremy Hunt suggests? - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. we've seen no measures of gdp per head which placed ireland below the uk before they cut corporation tax in 2015, and some measures show the difference is now is more than 50%.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joseph O'Leary
Date published: 2019-07-11T00:00:00