An SSIA on Steroids
The proposed taxation of the new savings and investment account gets the economics backwards. Pensions, not owner-occupied housing, should be the model to follow.
How to tax and spend it
An occasional newsletter on Irish economic and social policy by Barra Roantree
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The "squeezed middle", savings and tax breaks
Is there anything to be said for another tax break?
Ireland's Shadow Budget
We forgo billions a year in tax breaks with little scrutiny or oversight
On the Budget and prudence
The budget cannot be prudent, prioritise infrastructure and cut VAT on Big Macs.
In praise of the Local Property Tax
We should be raising far more from the Local Property Tax than we do. Instead, successive governments have eroded and degraded it.
When I have it, I spend it
The Government's Budget plans are looking like Charlie McCreevy for slow learners
Our leaders say that “ending child poverty is a defining challenge"
Yet whenever the opportunity comes to translate words into action there is always some higher priority
Ireland's procedure fetish
Overly stringent procedural requirements are hobbling the state's ability to deliver the infrastructure and housing we need
The parties spending plans (part II)
There is a multi-billion black hole in each of the major parties' spending plans
The parties spending plans
Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin all have serious questions to answer on their spending plans