IBEC has published a paper entitled ‘Debunking Irish income tax myths’. At its core it contains misleading, highly selective and ultimately disingenuous arguments. In short, it is bunk. Let’s go…
Last night on Prime Time Brendan Burgess, from Ask About Money, stated that high-income earners in Ireland pay more tax than high earners in other countries. ‘We have a very…
The new Global Competitiveness Report is out. This is produced by the World Economic Forum (the crowd that occupies Davos once a year). It purports to rank countries by their…
The Sunday Business Post ran four stories last weekend- including a front-page banner headline – attacking not only public sector workers’ living standards, but workers in public enterprise as well. …
Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU