Blog Archive

The Commission and Illegal State Aid Rules

Jim Stewart 23/10/2015

Jim Stewart: The EU has been investigating five cases of potential illegal granting of State aid via favourable tax rulings. The Commission means by …

The problem with animals

David Begg 22/10/2015

David Begg: A few weeks ago I happened upon an RTÉ radio programme in which the author John Banville was talking about the genre of the Scandinavian …

Independent Review of Ireland’s PPP Experience is Essential

Eoin Reeves 21/10/2015

Eoin Reeves: A largely unnoticed feature of the government’s new €27 billion capital investment plan – Building on Recovery -is the decision …

Budget 2016: Budget ‘sweet-spot’ of €70,000 means the Top 10% is the big winner… again.

Cormac Staunton 13/10/2015

Cormac Staunton: In our analysis of last years ‘triple effect’ of changes to tax bands, tax rates and USC rates we found that Budget 2015 gave …

Budget 2016: Opportunity missed to address social crisis, particularly housing, as chronic under-investment in infrastructure continued

Rory Hearne 13/10/2015

Rory Hearne: So what do the expenditure measures announced in today’s Budget 2016 do to address Ireland’s worsening social and economic …

Flat Tax benefits Top 25% of earners and reduces services for everyone

Cormac Staunton 06/10/2015

Cormac Staunton: When trying to understand the impact of changes to the income tax system there are two vital bits of information that are needed: …

Can Corbyn win? - A Look at the Stats

Oisín Gilmore 06/10/2015

Oisin Gilmore: For over the last 100 years or so progressive politics in Western Europe has been dominated by a small number of major parties. Some …

Making Dublin the capital of Ireland

James Wickham 02/10/2015

James Wickham: Two opportunities are about to be lost for dramatic improvements to Dublin. There seems to be considerable push-back against Dublin …

Complexity of inequality means we must move beyond single indicators

Cormac Staunton 29/09/2015

Cormac Staunton: Yogi Berra, the great American Baseball player who died last week at the age of 90, is credited with the immortal line: “It’s …

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