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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
News today that tax receipts in Ireland are up. So much so good for government finances. However, as Joan Burton points out:Today's Exchequer Returns confirm yet again that Value Added Tax has become the largest element in the government's tax coffers, continuing to outpace Income Tax Receipts by ...
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
Via the EU Observer, a new report on incomes in industry and services across the EU. As usual I'm interested in pulling specific points - especially those involving Ireland - into relief rather than the headline figures.
Ireland has the fourth highest average income (in the areas covered) in the EU, ...
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Monday, May 9th, 2005
Regular readers will know that I'm fascinated by economic statistics, the ones that pull trends out of masses of data. The Atlantic Monthly has a short piece on the economic impact of Democratic and Republican presidents across income. Interestingly, Democrats are generally better (in terms of income growth) for everyone ...
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2004
More income statistics for Ireland in today's Irish Times - these ones showing that we have among the highest gaps in the EU between high and low earners, with the top quintile earning 4.5 times what the bottom quintile earn. Not only that, but more than 20% of the population ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2003
Seems I'm not the only one interested in having more data available on incomes in Ireland.
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Friday, August 8th, 2003
I asked, they answered. Thanks to my friend Micheál I was directed to the website of CORI's Justice Commission, which includes some interesting data on incomes. They concentrate on the more relevant 'disposable income' rather than on gross or net incomes.
From their site:
The top quintile (20%) of Irish households have ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2003
Alternet have an interesting piece on income distribution in the US. Does anyone have similar information for Ireland? I'm curious. We don't have too many billionaires, but I wonder how the income spread looks overall.
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Saturday, March 31st, 2012
VoIP software, like Skype, is a challenge for traditional telephony operators, who now have income from providing digital bandwidth, but are losing higher-margin operations, such as voice calls. Good to see the European Commission stand up for network neutrality on this one:
According to the European Commission, maintaining "net neutrality" – ...
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Wondering how Mitt Romney manages to pay under 14% of his income in tax? Confused by all this talk of 'carried interest'? Eileen Appelbaum lays it all out very clearly in this piece, carried by US News, which also lays out the case for why this income should not qualify ...
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
I've been advocating, privately, the prosecution for treason of David Drumm and other Irish former bankers who are manipulating foreign and domestic bankruptcy proceedings to retain their ill-gotten gains. Having made their fortunes by fuelling a speculative bubble, they then engage in clearly deceptive tactics to avoid their personal responsibilities ...
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