Tag: OECD
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Taxing Wages – OECD 2015
Just released today. So, lets see how Ireland groans under a uniquely high burden of wage taxation shall we. Lets look, for illustrative purposes, at a single income average wage earner.
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Health Care Spending Ireland v OECD
Theres perennial talk on how we do, or do not, allocate more , or less, money to health care than the OECD. Lets take a look, via the OECD Stat Bank. Im looking at constant prices constant purchasing power parity data – adjusting for inflation and for the fact that a dollar buys less in one…
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Financial Illiteracy – A Problem we are ignoring.
Ten years on and we still don’t know what a tracker mortgage is, despite all the financial water under the bridge, the collapse of the banking system, and the taking into receivership of the state. We are financially illiterate in large part. And nobody seems to be doing much about it.
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If Ireland was Greece…in tax terms anyhow
Ireland has a tax problem.. If we were to collect tax at Greek levels, we would take in €8b extra. Greece,…Think about that for a little while and wonder how we could spend that on investment, debt paydown, and increased social services. The chart shows how much more we could raise in taxation if we…
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Ireland – Not really a high tax economy, just a badly designed tax economy
We as a polity are not big on evidence based policy. We rather form an opinion, then seek evidence for it, or better yet stay silent. This leads to suboptimal decision making, to put it mildly. The emergent debate on tax shows this in spades.
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joined up government thinking would be nice…
We aren’t good at joined up socio-economic thinking in this state. As we move from the depression to the recovery, now would be the time to put in place some of the elements to solve longstanding issues. All the evidence is that the state wont, as it seems to be immune to evidence based policy…
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Should we benchmark taxes to lure back immigrants?
The government seems to think so. Apparently its the income tax that is holding us back. Reform of the income tax system to encourage emigrants to return home is being considered by the Government in the run-up to publication of the spring economic statement. Under the plans, the tax system would be benchmarked against countries…