fistophobia
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Sinn Féin priorities:
» Making all income below €30,000 exempt from USC, benefitting all workers.
This will mean no USC is paid on the first €30,000 you earn
» Abolishing the Local Property Tax (LPT), replacing it with direct Exchequer
funding for local authorities. The LPT hits low and middle incomes and, for many,
acts as a tax on debt as they struggle with negative equity or high mortgage
interest payments
» Increasing the Earned Income Credit for the Self-Employed to €1,650, a promise
Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil failed to keep. Together with making the first €30,000
earned exempt from USC, we will lift the tax burden on self-employed workers
on modest incomes
» Ensuring that those who benefit most from our economy pay their fair share,
funding our public services and protecting the public finances. We will introduce
a 5% levy on individual incomes above €140,000, and remove tax credits from
individual incomes above €140,000, tapered at a rate of 2.5% for every €1,000
above €100,000
» Abolishing the Special Assignee Relief Programme (SARP). SARP is a tax break
given to the richest multinational employees but denied to ordinary workers
and families.
Yea, be even more populist; the electorate is even more economically illiterate and short sighted than you thought.but a timely warning to the other political parties is being dished out.
As noted before, FG/FF have made Ireland the 4th richest country in the world. But I do agree that this has brought its problems with housing affordability and congestion. SF would plunge us back to the ‘80s and maybe that would not be such a bad thing.Well Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael had control of our economy for a hundred years. Sinn Féin can't do much worse. However, I hope SF won't be controlling the purse strings, but a timely warning to the other political parties is being dished out.
Those exemptions include pension pots, primary dwelling houses, family farms and family businesses. What's left that can't be moved out of the country?SF propose a wealth tax.
See their GE 2020 manifesto:
Introduce a wealth tax for the wealthiest 1% in the State at a rate of 1% on the portion of net wealth held over €1 million with a number of exemptions including farms
To raise 89m.
As noted before, FG/FF have made Ireland the 4th richest country in the world. But I do agree that this has brought its problems with housing affordability and congestion. SF would plunge us back to the ‘80s and maybe that would not be such a bad thing.
Are you saying that the people didn't work hard of sacrifice until the late 80's? Because that's when things started to really get better.No Duke - It was the people of Ireland through sacrifices of working longer and for less helped make Ireland one of the richest countries of the world..
I never said that. You're misquoting me again.Are you saying that the people didn't work hard of sacrifice until the late 80's? Because that's when things started to really get better.
No Duke - It was the people of Ireland through sacrifices of working longer and for less helped make Ireland one of the richest countries of the world..
Well then surely it was the people of Ireland who destroyed the Country 10 years ago?
I have to be honest. This is the first election where I can understand people voting entirely for local reasons. This election at National Level has been pitiful by all the political parties. All I have heard is what these people and spin doctors think I want to hear. And they are wrong every single time.
No Sunny, it was the people saved the country others nearly broke it.
No Sunny, it was the people saved the country others nearly broke it.
Riiiighht, sure it was.No Sunny, it was the people saved the country others nearly broke it.
I say the same thing to my daughter ,As noted before, FG/FF have made Ireland the 4th richest country in the world. But I do agree that this has brought its problems with housing
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