Is it time to reduce the tax-free pension lump sum?
Some experts argue €200,000 limit overly favours high earners and costs exchequer too much
State spends €15.8bn a year on ‘discretionary’ tax expenditures
Committee hears Government should consider limiting certain pension tax reliefs
Miriam Lord’s Week: Limerick TD unites his FG colleagues against him
Minister of State Patrick O’Donovan handed black card for unsporting behaviour
Miriam Lord: Some TDs could do with bibs as well as masks
Mary Lou weathers aerosol bombardment from spitting-mad Independents
Impact of poverty ‘costs Ireland €4.5bn annually’, report suggests
Hidden Cost of Poverty report by Society of St Vincent de Paul flags ways to tackle malaise
Earthquake election brings SF to position of unprecedented power
Previously unshakeable fealty of electorate to party system shattered
Calls for greater scrutiny of billions lost to ‘tax expenditures’
Parliamentary Budget Office and academic calculate State losing €5bn-€15bn a year
Miriam Lord: Thin-skinned Taoiseach’s stand-up gags fall flat
Varadkar makes lame jokes about Oliver Callan as Michael Collins lip syncs to Abba
State loses €21.4bn each year through ‘tax expenditures’
Expert highlights wide range of tax reliefs and reductions currently available in Ireland
Miriam Lord: Cheers to the men calling for compassion
‘If a boy gets himself into trouble, can he not take the morning-after pilsner?’
Universal scheme looms as pension time bomb ticks
Government to launch review of auto-enrolment and State pension
Citizens Assembly hears call for cut in number of pension schemes
Gathering told access to value of home may ease financial struggles for pensioners
Cash free for a month: an experiment in new ways to pay
As the world turns to digital payments, one Irish man tried to use no cash in January
Miriam Lord: Enda’s double visions for rural Ireland
Amid gags about Big Tom and small farmers and fishermen, a bucolic plan is rolled out
John McManus: Only one in five is living the Irish dream
Fair rewards are elusive and this creates a breeding ground for populist solutions
Why one in three earners pays no income tax
No budget largesse for many self-employed, such as an increase in earned income credit
Three-quarters of minimum wage earners are female
Some 70,000 Irish employees – 5% of workforce – earning statutory minimum wage
Should everyone in Ireland be paid €752 a month for doing nothing?
Arguments are growing for basic income payments
Ireland should introduce financial transaction tax, says civil group
Robin Hood Tax Campaign says money could be used to tackle poverty, global warming
Singapore honours Prep Zone founder Mícheál Collins
Irish entrepreneur receives Spirit of Enterprise award from Singapore’s minister for trade Lee Yi Shyan
Poorer people in Ireland ‘pay out more of their income in tax’
Report suggests poorer households are disproportionately hit by indirect taxes, like VAT
Contraction in pharma sector causing a 0.5% drag on economic growth
Nevin Economic Research Institute predicts ‘patent cliff’ will slow growth
Deloitte suggests making planned 2015 austerity adjustments in October Budget ‘prudent’
Tax and accounting consultants say increases in CGT and CAT among prime targets for increase in 2014
Number of tax exiles rises by 27% in two years
13,093 people indicated they were non-resident in State for tax purposes in 2011
Who will be the last to suffer for the mistake of austerity?
This faith-based construction of economic ‘reality’ is no less ideologically driven than the Soviet five-year plans
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