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The values underlying the Commission on Taxation

Slí Eile 08/09/2009

Slí Eile: The Commission on Taxation (CoT) Report is another winter blockbuster following the Summer Bord Snip. A pattern has been witnessed - …

Read the fine print

Michael Taft 08/09/2009

Michael Taft: There will be any number of posts and articles on different aspects of the Commission on Taxation Report. Here I’d like to address …

Will some local authorities go bankrupt in 2010?

Nat O'Connor 08/09/2009

Nat O'Connor: It has been suggested today that property tax will not be introduced any time soon: “Ministers believe that the introduction of a …

Commission on Taxation Report Another Indicator of Political Crisis

Colm O'Doherty 08/09/2009

Colm O'Doherty: It would be naive to think that a Commission on Taxation composed of political insiders and handcuffed to the taxation equivalent of …

McDonough on Finucane

08/09/2009

Click here to listen to PE's Terry McDonough on Sunday's Marian Finucane show, talking about NAMA and other things economic.

Pro-business bias reflects Commission's flawed terms of reference

Paul Sweeney 07/09/2009

Paul Sweeney: This report has some excellent analyses and many useful recommendations which will be of use to a progressive government in the future. …

Carbon taxes - not 'just another tax' according to Commission

07/09/2009

John Barry: This post is a very quick ‘cut and paste’ pulling together some of the main carbon and environmental related aspects of today’s …

How can we afford such a low tax take?

Slí Eile 07/09/2009

Slí Eile: Like the Curates Egg, the Commission on Taxation Report has many excellent parts. The starting point of any analysis of this 500 pages …

Commission on Taxation report

07/09/2009

The full text of the Report is available for download here.

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