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Guest Post: Vacant Land Tax to Incentivise the Development of Unused Land in Dublin

Kieran Rose 21/05/2013

Kieran Rose: Incentivising the Development of Unused Land in Dublin City: The benefits of a Vacant Land Tax. 1. Summary Dublin City has considerable …

Ireland at the Core of Apple's Tax Avoidance Strategy

Nat O'Connor 21/05/2013

Nat O'Connor: Apple is the latest big global company in the spotlight about its tax affairs and Ireland is named and shamed as assisting the tech …

Google and Ireland's tax regime

17/05/2013

Jim Stewart was on RTE radio 1 Morning Ireland today talking about Google and Ireland's tax regime. This can be heard here.

Ethics and regulation: complements, not alternatives

15/05/2013

Last week former Taoiseach and President of IFSC Ireland, John Bruton, said that the banking industry needed "to focus on ethics rather than …

Stiglitz on the need to reform our (their) economic models

Paul Sweeney 10/05/2013

Paul Sweeney: Stiglitz on the need to reform our (their) economic models, on Social Europe Journal here. A bit long but a good analysis.

TASC-FEPS Conference 'Reconstructing the European Economy (June 14th)

09/05/2013

“Reconstructing the European Economy” Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland Registration is still open for the TASC-FEPS conference on …

Neither Fair or Equitable - The Impact of Government Cuts on Traveller Services

30/04/2013

Pavee Point published a report yesterday, on the impact of cuts over the last five years on Traveller projects and services. The report, authored by …

Debt, Growth and Coding Errors

Tom McDonnell 17/04/2013

Tom McDonnell: Reinhart and Rogoff's finding that the growth rate starts to decline once the public debt to GDP ratio exceeds 90% has become embraced …

Optimal taxation of top incomes

Tom McDonnell 16/04/2013

Tom McDonnell: You can find an interesting paper on optimal top marginal tax rates here. The authors find that the optimal top marginal tax rate …

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