Category: Taxation


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' …

Current pension tax reliefs inequitable and unsustainable

Gerard Hughes 19/08/2009

Gerard Hughes: Reading Paul O’Faherty’s opinion piece in the Irish Times on 29 July one would not suspect that it is the private pension system …

Another take on Exchequer returns

An tSaoi 10/08/2009

An Saoi: The tax figures for July were published last Wednesday, slightly delayed by the Holiday weekend. This month, however, there were no …

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