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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.
Social Justice Ireland launched
Slí Eile 06/09/2009
Slí Eile: Social Justice Ireland has been launched. See its new website.
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Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …