USC is payable on a workplace pension
FLASHBACK: In 2016, just 19 days before a general election, then-Minister of State Simon Harris told the public that it was Fine Gael’s “absolute commitment” to do away with the “hated USC” over the lifetime of that Government, stating: “We need to abolish it.”
Or “five demands” voters can get behind.
“I have no plans to abolish it.”
Sinn Féin “speaking with a forked tongue” on taxation – Minister
USC: “Unwanted Shameless Charge.”
Scrap it
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 […]