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TASC Submission to Commission on Low Pay The Goverment has set up a Low Pay Commission to look at the National Minimum Wage and other issue relating to low pay. …
New Think Piece: Paul Sweeney on Aer Lingus IAG group is making a bid to take-over Aer Lingus by purchasing shares currently held by the Irish Government. In this …
TASC at Labour Party Conference: Economic Inequality poses many challenges for Ireland Speaking today at the Labour Equality workshop, Cormac Staunton, co-author of TASC’s new report Cherishing All Equally, …
TASC Letter to Sunday Independent Sir, Columnist Dan O’Brien misrepresented TASC’s recent report as ideological and narrowly focused on hypothetical gross …
TASC Letter to the Irish Times TASC's letter to The Irish Times was published today, clarifying some important points about our recent report: Sir, – We …
TASC Report says Ireland will move Closer to US Levels of Inequality without Major Changes to Economic and Social Policy including Taxation Press Release Cherishing all Equally shows top 1% average income was €373,300 in 2011 compared to €27,400 for bottom 90% …
TASC Welcomes Reform of Appointments to State Boards 6 February 2015 PRESS STATEMENT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TASC Welcomes Reform of Appointments to …
Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform guest speaker at TASC Lunchtime Seminar 22nd January The TASC lunchtime seminar series continued today with Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and …
1 in 2 Irish People Willing to Pay Higher Taxes - New Poll Shows Over 80% want Ireland to be more equal through boosting minimum wage, capping high pay, raising taxes and providing more …
Video of Brian Nolan TASC Annual Lecture 2014 now available The video of Professor Brian Nolan delivering the TASC Annual Lecture 2014 is now available.
TASC: Budget 2015 'Triple Benefit' for the Top Third of Workers TASC: Budget 2015 'Triple Benefit' for the Top Third of Workers USC reduction for the lower paid is largely cancelled out by …
TASC refutes business lobby arguments on tax and presents the argument for reducing economic inequality TASC today launched a new briefing on Budget 2015, setting out the context. The global rise of econoimc inequality frames …
TASC Refutes IBEC's Skewed Analysis of Income Taxation TASC Refutes IBEC's Skewed Analysis of Income Taxation IBEC's publication 'Debunking Irish income tax myths' is inaccurate …
Think-tank Calls for End to Misleading Debate on Tax TASC analysis shows Budget targets can be met while reducing economic inequality and investing more in health and education …
Cuts to 52% Tax Rate Won't Help Middle Earners TASC - Think-tank for Action on Social Change (www.tasc.ie) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (PDF version here) In response to recent …