Tagged with: tax rates
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 converges to about 2/3. You can read a synopsis of the findings here.
The effect of marginal tax rates
17/12/2012
It has sometimes been suggested that marginal tax rates in Ireland are too high, and that raising them would harm growth. They may affect the …
Effective tax rates in Ireland
Proinnsias Breathnach 11/01/2010
Proinnsias Breathnach: I sent the following letter to the Irish Times in early December, but like my article on competitiveness, it failed to make it …
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