In his opinion column on 29 September Fintan O’Toole asserts that the claim that Ireland’s tax system is the most progressive is “not true at all. It is, literally not even a half-truth”. Fintan’s view that “The whole claim to having the most progressive tax system depends on ignoring the highly regressive nature of indirect…
The time has come for us to close our doors as our funding from Atlantic Philanthropies has been exhausted.
We end with some final thoughts.
Employment increased by almost 70,000 (3.1%) in the year to Q4 2017. Over 115,000 part-time workers would like to work more than they currently do.
Key Point¹ The Irish policy system has been properly obsessed by the need to make progress in reducing the extent and impact of the bank related debt. Now that we have made some progress on this front, it is timely to focus on another dysfunctional aspect of Irish and European governance. By delays amounting to…
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A Fat Tax would be an ineffective means of tackling rising obesity..
Continue Reading ...Fiscal policy is about getting our public income and expenditure in balance, in ways that are acceptable and foster the creation of employment. When expenditure dramatically exceeds income, and crisis is upon us, extricating ourselves becomes all consuming. But it is important even in crisis to retain what is valuable about those aspects of life…
Continue Reading ...Some have complained that the residential property tax (to be applied in Ireland from 2013), and to be based on the market value of the property, will be unfair to Dubliners, because property values are higher there than elsewhere in Ireland. The value of the 298 properties sold in Dundrum, County Dublin are compared with…
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The present system of government accounting puts significant barriers in the way of achieving the optimum use of external service delivery. One of the elements of the Public Service Reform Plan announced by Minister Brendan Howlin on 17 November 2011 relates to the external service delivery or outsourcing of non-critical functions. The way the present…
Continue Reading ...Social Spending in Ireland and the EU Eurostat has published figures showing social protection expenditure in 2010 for the EU27 and five other European countries. Social protection expenditure includes not only social welfare payments but also public spending on health and education. The figures are shown in purchasing power standard (PPS) per head of population….
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Installation of water meters in all houses will not be in place by end 2013. Possible alternatives for the interim include surcharges on property tax, increased VAT on electricity, or increased carbon tax.
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The Government has announced the introduction of a residential property tax from 1 July, 2013 in place of the household charge. The new tax follows the Report of the Interdepartmental Group on Property Tax which has been published. The new tax will improve the equity of our tax system. The fiscal privileges given to owner-occupied…
Continue Reading ...Having been in hospital in Ireland in early 1979 for minor surgery, Elizabeth Shannon, the wife of the then US ambassador to Ireland, wrote in her diary as follows : “Irish hospitals are wonderfully kind, warm places, very unlike my scanty experience with American hospitals. The nurses, many of them nuns, are patient, humane and…
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