Taxation

Budget 2025 should focus on generating revenue, not cutting taxes

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Tax Budget

Budget 2025 should avoid using taxation measures as a means of providing short term solutions to the ongoing cost-of-living challenges that all of society continues to face. Reductions in income…

Budget 2025 must focus on building resilience rather than the upwards redistribution of resources

Monday, 2 September 2024
budget 4

Government should use its final Budget to adopt recurring taxation and expenditure measures which prioritise building resilience, protect vulnerable groups and invest in much needed infrastructure…

Assessing the Adequacy of Ireland’s Total Tax-Take

Monday, 8 July 2024
Fair tax

The need for a wider tax base is a lesson painfully learnt by Ireland during the 2008-2011 economic crisis. A disastrous combination of a naïve housing policy, a failed regulatory system, and foolish…

Budget 2025 should close income gaps and build resilient public services

Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Budget

Government should use its final Budget to close the income gaps which have opened as a result of temporary measures in last year’s budget.  These measures, concentrated among welfare dependent…

National Social Monitor: Care - Taxation

Monday, 1 July 2024
Fair taxation

This section of our National Social Monitor: Care looks at the adequacy of current taxation policy.  This section of our National Social Monitor: Care looks at the adequacy of current taxation policy…

Corporation Taxes in Ireland

Monday, 17 June 2024
Progressive & Equitable Taxation

While much discussion in recent years has centred on once-off windfall corporate tax revenues and how these revenues should be used, it is important that Government look at the role that recurrent…

Managing change - delivering fair outcomes in a time of transitions

Monday, 29 April 2024
Managing change

Ireland is going through several major transitions which will transform how our society and economy function.  These transitions are already well underway.  Climate change is taking its toll on both…

Social Justice Matters: 2024 guide to a fairer Irish society

Monday, 29 April 2024
SER 2024 Cover

In this socio-economic review for 2024 Social Justice Ireland presents a detailed analysis of a range of key matters which are central to social justice; a vision of Ireland’s future as a…

Ireland’s Overall Tax Take Remains Inadequate

Friday, 10 November 2023
Tax Competiveness

Data accompanying Budget 2024 outlines Government’s plans for taxation and spending over the next 4 years (to 2026). Over that period, assuming the policies signalled by Government are followed,…

Effective Income Tax Rates after Budget 2024

Wednesday, 8 November 2023
Fair tax

Central to a thorough understanding of income taxation in Ireland are effective tax rates. These rates are calculated by comparing the total amount of income tax a person pays with their pre-tax…