Category: Economics
A Roadmap to Greater Inequality: TASC response to Budget 2012
08/12/2011
TASC's response to Budget 2012, A Roadmap to Greater Inequality, is available for download here.
Day 2 - Budget 2012
Sinéad Pentony 07/12/2011
Sinéad Pentony: Day two of the budget focused primarily on revenue raising measures and the introduction of measures aimed at stimulating economic …
Day 1 - Budget 2012
Sinéad Pentony 06/12/2011
Sinéad Pentony: Yesterday’s budget was presented on the basis of three guiding principles: fairness, jobs and reform. Let’s put these principles …
TASC's Response to the Public Spending Announcements
Nat O'Connor 05/12/2011
Nat O'Connor: We have made an initial response to the Budget 2012 public spending announcments. The reforms to the budgetary process could be a …
It's official - austerity isn't working
Michael Burke 05/12/2011
Michael Burke: The Department of Finance’s White Paper Estimates for the 2012 Budget make for grim reading. The White Paper can be found here. What …
More tax questions than answers
Sheila Killian 04/12/2011
Sheila Killian: The 2012 Estimates published over the weekend make for interesting reading in the context of what has already been leaked from the …
Budget 2012: carbon tax, motor tax and motivations
Aoife Ní Lochlainn 02/12/2011
Aoife Ní Lochlainn: As we get closer to the budget day (or budget days), the shape of Government plans is becoming clearer. We know, both from leaks …
Child Benefit and our values
Tom McDonnell 02/12/2011
Tom McDonnell: As Peadar Kirby said in the blog earlier today: "Budgets should be seen as opportunities to debate national choices for expenditure …
Budget 2012: Where's the substance?
Peadar Kirby 02/12/2011
Peadar Kirby: Amid all the kite flying, the scaremongering and the testing of the electorate’s pain threshold, the central lesson of the …
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