Category: Fiscal policy
Some Missing Elements in the Pensions Debate
Michelle Maher 19/05/2017
In Ciarán Hancock’s recent (10 May) Irish Times article Time for the Government to Introduce Pension Auto-enrolment, he makes a welcome call for …
Can Special Purpose Vehicles help alleviate the Housing Crisis?
Tom Healy 30/01/2017
A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) is a technical term that refers to a wide variety of arrangements where a financial entity is established for a …
Much Progress on Costly and Wasteful Tax Breaks but Radical Change is now Needed.
Paul Sweeney 08/11/2016
Paul Sweeney: There has been much progress in getting rid of the most wasteful and destructive tax breaks, but many remain. Indeed a radical approach …
Housing and homelessness crisis worsens
Rory Hearne 25/08/2016
Rory Hearne: This week’s figures on homelessness and rent increases provide further evidence of the on-going housing crisis. Unfortunately the …
Has the OECD abandoned its neo-liberal taxation policies?
Paul Sweeney 27/07/2016
Paul Sweeney: The OECD has relentlessly pursued a neo-liberal taxation policy. It seldom uses the word taxation without the appendage “burden” …
Taoiseach appears to seek Increased Public Investment, as does OECD.
Paul Sweeney 13/06/2016
Paul Sweeney: The leak in the Irish Times (13th June 2016) that the Taoiseach has written to Mr Juncker, President of the EU Commisson, on the need …
Lifetime Community Rating and Inequality
Nat O'Connor 13/03/2016
Nat O'Connor: We are coming up to the first anniversary of Lifetime Community Rating (LCR) in private health insurance and it is timely to consider …
The score at half time: OECD 7, Tax Avoidance ??
16/09/2014
Today the OECD announced the deliverables on seven of their fifteen planned actions to tackle global corporate tax avoidance. (for background, see …
OECD and tax avoidance: the story so far ...
02/04/2014
In a webcast from Paris this afternoon, the OECD updated the world on progress on the BEPS project to date. Pascal Saint-Amans stressed the process …
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