With NI's health system under increasing pressure, can extra money be found to ease the issues?
This would involve making cuts elsewhere in the budget and would mean difficult political decisions.
If it lowered the rate, then it would need to make up for the shortfall in tax revenue by handing back some of the block grant from the UK government.
"Pre-Covid, we weren't out clapping for health workers, but now there's greater awareness of the work they've been doing, the risks they've faced and the challenges going forward. As well as the power to vary the rate of corporation tax, the Northern Ireland Assembly was given the power to change the rate of air passenger duty on long-haul flights in 2012.In March, it was announced thatHe is the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a high-profile think tank.
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