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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 …

Guest post by Eoin O Broin: Time to raise taxes

Eoin Ó Broin 29/07/2009

Eoin O Broin: The Commission on Taxation is due to complete its work later this week. Established in February 2008, its remit was to ‘review the …

Cutting Off your Nose to Spite Your Face – Mc Carthy and the Revenue

An tSaoi 24/07/2009

An Saoi: The Revenue Commissioners get off lightly in McCarthy’s Report. It is suggested that savings of around €26M could be made. However as …

The burdens of a low tax society

Slí Eile 24/06/2009

Sli Eile: Received wisdom in political economy establishment thinking here in Ireland is that taxes are a ‘burden’ (in other words not nice and …

Green shoots? Scorched earth!

An tSaoi 05/06/2009

An tSaoi:The Taoiseach sees positive signs in the May Exchequer figures, which were not as bad as expected. Tax paid in May was €64M over the …

The stagflation myth

03/06/2009

Paul Krugman has a post up on his blog today pointing out that "Ever since Reagan, conservatives have been using the evils of stagflation to denounce …

Do it, Explain it, Avoid it

Slí Eile 13/05/2009

Sli Eile: “Do it, Explain it and Avoid it” is the advice of Jens Henriksson. He also says that ‘A few powerpoint slides, a report and a good …

Transparency in practice

Paul Sweeney 06/05/2009

Paul Sweeney: Openness and transparency is all the rage…. in theory. But on some places it is being practiced. Under the new administration in the …

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