Tagged with: income tax
A Defence of Taxation, Revisited
Nat O'Connor 10/03/2026
In 2014, TASC published A Defence of Taxation. Its argument in favour of progressive alternatives to reducing public services through tax cuts remains as salient as ever, and it is an appropriate topic to revisit on the 25th anniversary of TASC. The context has changed, but Ireland’s tax system is still unstable and unsustainable, despite …
More tax questions than answers
Sheila Killian 04/12/2011
Sheila Killian: The 2012 Estimates published over the weekend make for interesting reading in the context of what has already been leaked from the …
Seven Principles for Progressive Income Tax
Nat O'Connor 10/09/2010
Nat O'Connor: On an earlier post about indirect tax, I was asked to sketch out some principles about income tax. Specifically, the questions were …
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