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    Chartered Accountants & CPA Merger

    Yes, the perfect time to offload some commercial property, isn't it?
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    Are fee-paying schools worth it?

    I don't need to look at the paper to know that whatever data they had was tortured until it conformed to ideology of the researchers. It's 'social' science after all, not actual science.
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    Irish banks consider new business model for Synch payments app to avoid Central Bank approval process

    Instant payment is only half of the problem that Revolut solved; the other is 'identity', i.e. being able to pay someone stored in my phone address book, rather than having to deal with 34-character IBANs.
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    Is the 41% Exit Tax Soon to be Scrapped? Michael McGrath to Review

    For most people, under a normal tax regime, investments other than ETFs are indeed irrational. But explain to us - what's logical about BRKB being tax free until death, when an ETF is not?
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    Is the 41% Exit Tax Soon to be Scrapped? Michael McGrath to Review

    Indexation on CGT ended in 2003. Since then, a hypothetical €100 investment that merely matched official inflation rates would be worth €162.37. The €62.37 would be liable for €20.58 in CGT. A stealth 'wealth tax' of around 0.6% per annum.
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    Is the 41% Exit Tax Soon to be Scrapped? Michael McGrath to Review

    But the funds do not accumulate 'forever'. Revenue receive either CGT when sold, or CAT when inherited. Why isn't that enough?
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    Is the 41% Exit Tax Soon to be Scrapped? Michael McGrath to Review

    There's nothing unrealistic about going back to the same rules that existed less than twenty years ago, and still exist in most other countries. We are the outlier.
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    Central Bank Digital Currency

    Yes, I do regard this as extremely naive. Even if the current 'powers that be' appear to be acting in your best interests, the next ones might decide not to. Don't give them power; you won't get it back.
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    Are electricity price plans with free units Saturday or Sunday a gimmick?

    Indeed. Trying to force users to adapt to the vagaries of intermittent renewable energy sources is a sign of failure, not progress.
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    Irish Times opinion piece by Colm Fagan: "Auto-enrolment plan seriously flawed"

    'Smoothing' necessarily involves assumptions on future returns. Who's taking on the risk embedded in those assumptions?
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    ESRI Universal Basic Income.....Bonkers

    This isn't physics. Economic & social 'science' research is not value-free factual information. It's just opinion serving an ideological purpose.
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    Rich/Poor mindset

    It would amaze me if the Government ever introduced a policy that didn't coddle farmers or business owners, or didn't incentivise you to buy the largest PPR you could.
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    CAT should be applied to transfers of businesses and farms.

    I don't 'want' it, but I don't really care if it happens. I don't see why the tax system should artifically prop them up.
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    CAT should be applied to transfers of businesses and farms.

    'Nearly all' is a major exaggeration but - so what?
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    Increase in State pension age to 67 should be delayed by seven years, report to recommend

    Saving more cannot fix the dependency ratio problem. Either productivity dramatically increases, or living standards do the opposite. All ageing countries are in a lot of trouble.
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    Judge highlights injustice of defendants having to pay legal costs in failed personal injury cases

    You know it's autumn, or winter, and so it's wet. You see the trees, you see the path covered in leaves. If you fall, it's your own damned fault. Trying to pawn off your liability on the council will not result in them cleaning up the leaves; it will just result in the trees being cut down...
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    If personal taxes are up to 51% what should Corporation Tax be?

    Corporate tax should be 0%. Capital gains and dividends should both be taxed at same rate as other income. That rate should not be anywhere near 51%.
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    Should Ireland agree to the 15% Multinational Corporation Tax Rate?

    There are no citizens of the world. We already tax dividends and capital gains. How many bites of the cherry does the State need?
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