Blog Archive

Property Tax and Local Government Funding

Nat O'Connor 02/07/2014

Nat O'Connor: Taxation is the price of civilised society - and that includes taxes to pay for many basic local services, including planning, roads, …

McWage: Why we will all be working in fast-food restaurants into our eighties

Paul Sweeney 30/06/2014

Paul Sweeney: This article by Douglas Coupland writing in the Financial Times deserves attention (click for full article on FT.com). He writes as …

Innovation and jobs through public investment

Cormac Staunton 26/06/2014

Cormac Staunton: Ireland’s National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) has been ranked in the top 2.5 per cent of incubators; 19th worldwide and 7th in …

What Now for Economic Inequality in Ireland?

Nat O'Connor 23/06/2014

Nat O'Connor: Last week, economist Thomas Piketty wowed a packed auditorium in Croke Park, with over 600 people in attendance to hear his analysis of …

Ireland's Corporation Tax Residency Rules Under Scrutiny

18/06/2014

According to Professor Jim Stewart of TCD, Ireland’s industrial policy is too tax-dependent and he suggested that policymakers were overly …

Thomas Piketty and Ireland's Property Tax

Nat O'Connor 16/06/2014

Nat O'Connor: The Irish Times had a major article on Thomas Piketty on Saturday (click here) They also had an interesting angle on Ireland's property …

IBEC's proposed tax cuts and Ireland's 'Low Tax Triangle'

Nat O'Connor 12/06/2014

Nat O'Connor: The business lobby group IBEC is advocating cuts to the higher rate of income tax. Such cuts would only benefit one third of income tax …

Want growth and jobs? First tackle inequality.

Cormac Staunton 04/06/2014

Cormac Staunton: A recent article by Ben Olinsky at the Center for American Progress brings together a number of key findings to show how greater …

TASC Conference Programme Now Available

04/06/2014

The TASC 2014 Conference Programme is now available here. 20th June 2014, Croke Park Conference Centre. Keynote address by Thomas Piketty, author of …

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