Category: Politics
Tax transparency: a step change or climate change?
18/06/2013
The OECD has another new report out today on tax transparency, this time to tie in to the G8 meeting in Enniskillen. Formally, this report was …
International tax avoidance - an update
05/06/2013
In advance of the G8, it might be useful to update what’s happening with the main international movers on the question of international tax …
Choices Around Cutting Child Benefit
Nat O'Connor 02/10/2012
Nat O'Connor: Despite the helpful reminder from Joseph Stiglitz that "Austerity has almost never worked", the Government has decided to cut further …
Power, Trust and the Household Charge
Sheila Killian 16/04/2012
Sheila Killian: This afternoon Erich Kirchler gave a very interesting seminar here at the Kemmy Business School on the factors that affect taxpayer …
Oireachtas Dysfunction on Economic Policy?
15/03/2012
Paul Hunt (a regular commentator on PE) has written a lengthy analysis in the Dublin Review of Book linking the dysfunction of the Oireachtas with …
What exactly will we be asked in the fiscal treaty referendum?
Nat O'Connor 02/03/2012
Nat O'Connor: The Taoiseach has signed the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (also known as the …
Minimum Essential Budgets
Nat O'Connor 10/02/2012
Nat O'Connor: The TCD Policy Institute recently published a volume by the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice and Dr Micheál Collins, which …
Obama on Income Equality and Economic Recovery
Nat O'Connor 26/01/2012
Nat O'Connor: President Obama used his State of the Union address 2012 to highlight income inequality. His speech is only one of a number of examples …
(III) The squeezed middle
Paul Sweeney 25/01/2012
Paul Sweeney: There has been much discussion on what is called the Squeezed Middle. This refers to those middle class families who are seeing …
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