Posts by Cormac Staunton
Cormac Staunton @cormac_staunton
Cormac Stauton is currently a policy advisor on EU and international policy in the Central Bank of Ireland. Prior to this, he was a policy analyst in TASC, and co-authored the first economic inequality report, Cherishing All Equally.
Why ‘gross’ income inequality matters
Cormac Staunton 24/02/2015
Cormac Staunton: Cherishing All Equally has prompted a discussion of economic inequality in Ireland. In a previous post I discussed why looking only …
Inequality: a Real and Growing Threat to the Irish Economy
Nat O'Connor, Cormac Staunton 16/02/2015
Nat O'Connor and Cormac Staunton: Economics has always been about the study of who gets what, when and how. This issue has come into sharp focus due …
The “Two Irelands”
Cormac Staunton 13/02/2015
Cormac Staunton: Christian Aid hosted a conference in Dublin yesterday on the “Human Rights Impact of Tax and Fiscal Policy”. There were a number …
Economic Inequality: More than Incomes and Wealth
Cormac Staunton 11/02/2015
Cormac Staunton: When discussing economic inequality, there is a tendency to focus on income inequality (or sometimes wealth inequality). This is …
You can't benchmark marginal rates of income tax
Cormac Staunton 06/02/2015
Cormac Staunton: As reported in the Irish Times, the government is considering introducing “tax benchmarking” for income tax in order to attract …
Case for a ‘Living Wage’ gets stronger
Cormac Staunton 15/12/2014
Cormac Staunton: The recent Behaviour & Attitudes survey on inequality has some striking and perhaps surprising findings. The first is striking: …
The Triple Benefit is Doubly Regressive
Cormac Staunton 15/10/2014
Cormac Staunton: In the immediate aftermath of the budget, there is much talk of whether the changes in income tax and USC were ‘progressive’ or …
Another way of looking at progressivity
Cormac Staunton 03/10/2014
Cormac Staunton: TASC has previously shown how the progressivity of Ireland’s income tax system declines after certain levels of income. It is …
Response to Irish Times article on the 'Tax Debate'
Cormac Staunton 02/10/2014
Cormac Staunton: Chris Johns in the Irish Times has written an article attacking all sides in the debate on income tax in the Budget, which includes …
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