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 […]
Joanna Lumley has many admirable sides to her it must be said – foremost among them being her long-time public support for the people of Tibet who have endured 60 years of genocide and horror at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. It might appear somewhat ironic then that her genuine concern for the […]
If you earn €34,302 in Ireland, then every single extra euro you earn after that will be taxed at a marginal rate of 52%. Once you earn that much, the Government feels entitled to take more than half of every extra euro you earn. In the UK, a person earning £34,302stg would pay an income […]
In 1962, President John F Kennedy committed to “an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes.” The tax system, he argued, “exerts too heavy a drag on growth; it siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power; it reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, […]
There is good news here, and bad news. The good news is now that we are a rogue state, the chances of the Americans deciding to launch a pre-emptive strike and liberate us from the tyranny of NPHET or whoever have increased dramatically. The bad news is that it is unlikely that many serious people […]