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Its all about choices

04/04/2009

Listening to the RTE News at 9 pm some evenings is not a healthy night cap for those worried about jobs – their own or those of their loved ones. …

Reform of tax relief on pensions should be accompanied by pension reform

Jim Stewart 30/03/2009

Jim Stewart: The solution to the current pensions crisis proposed by TASC in its pamphlet Making Pensions Work for People is to introduce an improved …

Preparing low and middle income earners for higher income tax

Peter Connell 27/03/2009

Peter Connell: In last Fridays’s Irish Times Colm Keena, in an article entitled ‘Income data understate contribution of lower and middle-income …

Responding to the crisis

24/03/2009

It can be hard to see beyond the impending budget and the rising crescendo of voices clamouring for cutting our way out of the present gathering …

Borrow, Tax and Spend?

10/03/2009

“This notion that the economy is self-stabilising is usually right but it is wrong a few times a century. And this is one of those times .

Who’s for some expansionary fiscal contraction?

Peter Connell 10/03/2009

Peter Connell: The mini-budget that we can look forward to in three weeks time will, I’m sure we’ll be told, ‘constitute a necessary first step …

Exchequer Returns Emphasise Need for Growth Strategy

04/03/2009

Yesterday's exchequer returns mark the end of Ireland's tax strategy since the end of the 1990s. As capital gains taxes collapse and stamp duty …

Liberal Policy Choices to Blame for the Crisis

Sean Ó Riain 02/03/2009

Sean O Riain: The dishonesty and incompetence of individuals in charge of running and regulating our financial system has been spectacular. However, …

Shadow regulation and shadow banking: the role of the Dublin International Financial Services Centre

26/02/2009

This piece has been cross-posted from the Tax Justice Network blog. Although written in July 2008, it remains highly topical. Jim Stewart: Shadow …

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