Blog Archive
Facing up to reality: Austerity is an obstacle to deficit reduction
11/04/2011
This is the first part of a two-part post. Michael Taft: On Sunday, Colm McCarthy wrote: ‘ . . .the programme for budgetary correction needs to be …
Corporate tax rate
Peadar Kirby 11/04/2011
Peadar Kirby: The issue of Ireland’s rate of corporation tax again dominated the news agenda over the weekend with the standoff between some EU …
Should there be a referendum on the IMF-EU deal?
Slí Eile 08/04/2011
Slí Eile: Readers may be interested in a recent Dáil debate which took place on the question of referendum on the IMF-EU deal. The Dáil Technical …
Portugal and the Tony Soprano bailout
08/04/2011
In the excellent TV series The Sopranos there is an episode where mobster Tony Soprano tells a small-time gambler why he let him play and lose in the …
Forthcoming events
07/04/2011
A few forthcoming events may be of interest to PE readers; continue below the fold for more information. TASC and Smart Taxes are collaborating to …
Over-enthusiastic spam checker
06/04/2011
Apologies to any PE readers who've had their comments filtered as spam. During the past week or so, the automatic spam checker has been …
How much is the taxpayer on the hook for?
Michael Burke 05/04/2011
Michael Burke: Frightening people into submission is a fairly easy trick. One tactic is to frighten them with an outlandish demand – then soften …
Is the IMF changing? A hard-hitting attack on the Washington Consensus
Paul Sweeney 05/04/2011
Paul Sweeney: As the IMF is here in Ireland, with the ECB and EU Commission, on a mission of assisting Irish citizens to bail out our banks and thus …
March tax returns
An tSaoi 05/04/2011
An Saoi: The tax returns for March give us our first real feel for what is happening in the economy in 2011 through the bi-monthly VAT returns. VAT …
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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 …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …