Category: Taxation
Will some local authorities go bankrupt in 2010?
Nat O'Connor 08/09/2009
Nat O'Connor: It has been suggested today that property tax will not be introduced any time soon: “Ministers believe that the introduction of a …
Commission on Taxation Report Another Indicator of Political Crisis
Colm O'Doherty 08/09/2009
Colm O'Doherty: It would be naive to think that a Commission on Taxation composed of political insiders and handcuffed to the taxation equivalent of …
Pro-business bias reflects Commission's flawed terms of reference
Paul Sweeney 07/09/2009
Paul Sweeney: This report has some excellent analyses and many useful recommendations which will be of use to a progressive government in the future. …
Carbon taxes - not 'just another tax' according to Commission
07/09/2009
John Barry: This post is a very quick ‘cut and paste’ pulling together some of the main carbon and environmental related aspects of today’s …
How can we afford such a low tax take?
Slí Eile 07/09/2009
Slí Eile: Like the Curates Egg, the Commission on Taxation Report has many excellent parts. The starting point of any analysis of this 500 pages …
Commission on Taxation report
07/09/2009
The full text of the Report is available for download here.
Meanwhile, in the UK ...
30/08/2009
Following last week's debate in the UK surrounding a Tobin Tax, Ruth Sunderland - writing in today's Observer, has a few other suggestions for …
Tobin tax revisited?
27/08/2009
An interesting proposal from the chair of the UK Financial Services Authority for a tax on financial transactions to combat excessive risk taking. …
Tax breaks for the very wealthy
Slí Eile 20/08/2009
Slí Eile: If in doubt about the capacity of some people to pay more tax check out the Department of Finance Analysis of High Income Individuals' …
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