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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 …

News Reports of Tax Cuts are Deeply Flawed

Nat O'Connor 29/05/2014

Nat O'Connor: Reporting of taxation issues is very flawed in Ireland. From before Christmas, we had reports like: "Income tax may be cut in the next …

The Secretive TTIP Agreement Threatens Democratic Regulation of European Economies

29/05/2014

What follows is a statement which was unanimously adopted at the Congress of the Nordic Transport Workers’ Federation in Malmoe, Sweden, last week: …

Thomas Piketty in The Financial Times and Tax Transparency

Nat O'Connor 26/05/2014

Nat O'Connor: It's an old stereotype that you can tell who are the serious left-wing economists by whether or not they read The Financial Times. The …

Most people won't benefit from any change to the 41% higher tax rate

22/05/2014

Talk of cuts to the 41% higher rate of income tax ignores the fact that two-thirds of people paying income tax do not pay any tax at that rate. The …

Symposium at NUI Maynooth: "Can Social Investment Save Social Europe?"

20/05/2014

On Thursday, 29th of May, a special seminar on Social Investment in Europe will be hosted by the Department of Sociology/ NIRSA, Political Economy …

Piketty and Inequality in Ireland

Cormac Staunton 08/05/2014

Cormac Staunton: Considerable attention is being given to Thomas Piketty’s influential work on economic inequality – “Capital in the 21st …

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