Blog Archive

The Danger of the Share-Buyback Epidemic

Paul Sweeney 30/04/2015

Paul Sweeney: The news that US companies will buy back over one Trillion dollars – that is $1,000,000,000,000 - worth of their own shares in 2015 …

Planned tax cuts likely to increase inequality

Cormac Staunton 29/04/2015

Cormac Staunton: The Government's Spring Statement, announced yesterday, was seen by some as a bit of a damp squib, with very little detail about …

Five Alternatives to Tax Cuts

28/04/2015

The Spring Statement will be announced today and the expectation is that there will be a heavy reliance on tax cuts for higher earners. Last week, …

More on Income Taxes and Social Charges – Proposals for Reform

Paul Sweeney 22/04/2015

Paul Sweeney: According to economists Thomas Piketty and Emanual Saez “The job of economists should be to make a top rate tax level of 80% at least …

No 'real responses' to changes in higher tax rates

Oisín Gilmore 20/04/2015

Oisín Gilmore: Last week on Morning Ireland, IBEC’s chief economist Fergal O’Brien issued some warnings about the impact of taxes in Ireland on …

Shining a light on alternatives

Cormac Staunton 14/04/2015

Cormac Staunton: Two important recent announcements by Government signal moves towards addressing some of the causes of economic inequality in …

Keep Aer Lingus Local

10/04/2015

Paul Sweeney has added a new TASC think piece arguing against the sale of Aer Lingus. You can read the full text here A short summary blog appears …

The Value of Nothing

Cormac Staunton 30/03/2015

Cormac Staunton: A serious suggestion doing the rounds at the moment is that we should have an independent body that costs political party manifestos …

Planning permissions show how little we've learnt

Paul Sweeney 30/03/2015

Paul Sweeney: This Infographic on planning permissions, published by the CSO last week, tells a lot about the Irish economy and Irish people. Source: …

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