Cost of living crisis
The Irish Truckers and Haulage Association has vowed to put Dublin on “complete lockdown” from Monday until their demands are met, and could stay for “over a week.” The protest, they say, will be “one for the history books,” as hauliers demand the government take action to reverse the rise of soaring fuel costs. Last […]
Taxation to make life a little more difficult: it feels like the divine right of kings revisited.
According to AA Ireland, petrol and diesel costs are at record highs as Applegreen warns of massive increases in fuel costs for consumers. The comments come as fuel prices soar across Europe due to a variety of factors. These include inflation, supply chain issues from the Covid lockdown, government charges like Carbon Tax, and overreliance […]
Anyone who knows of Fine Gael is aware that the party’s brand is based largely on being a laissez-faire, pro-business, low tax party. In 2018, then-Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tried to position his party as the party of tax cuts, making bold promises and big assurances of cuts for years to come. And that certainly sounds […]
Whatever about their ideological roots, one thing is now clear: Fine Gael is no longer a low tax party. @Ben_Scallan comments.
In 2017, Sinn Féin TD and finance spokesman Pearse Doherty said that his party opposed abolishing the Universal Service Charge (USC). The USC has been a topic of discussion lately, as Fine Gael Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe claimed he had never said the charge would be temporary – a claim which Gript fact checked and […]
A group of environment-focused economists in Germany have called for massive tax hikes on meat products to combat climate change, even as food prices surge due to inflation. According to researchers from TU Berlin’s Chair of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, the government should move to limit meat consumption to “attain greenhouse gas neutrality.” “Livestock […]
In the last two years alone, the state will have spent twenty billion euros more than it took in, even with a record tax take.
Fine Gael Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said that Ireland’s corporate tax revenue will begin to decline after 2023. Speaking on Thursday to RTÉ radio, the Minister said Ireland would “lose money” on the new OECD arrangement, whereby Ireland’s famous 12.5% corporation tax would be raised to 15%. “If you look at where we are […]
The Irish government allowed it to. We all deserve better.
One rule that is a good one to abide by in life is this: Never be mean or rude to somebody knocking at your door. That goes especially for political canvassers: Most of them are party volunteers, not responsible for setting policy, and are doing something good and healthy in a democracy: getting involved and […]