Tag: site tax
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Ireland- subsiding housing market failure
Economics has a lot to say about market failure, its causes consequences and resolution. The government know these. Indeed, at the cabinet table sits a man with formal economic training, in Richard Bruton, who knows these things. If they don’t, or have forgotten, then a phone call to the Government Economic Service will refresh or…
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(Site) Tax the bejazuz out of them…
We need a radical intervention in the areas of building land. Not a committee
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Taxes, Land and Wealth
This is an expanded version of a column published in the Irish Examiner 25 August 2012. One of the defining characteristics of Irish governance is the inability to make decision based on evidence. All to often we substitute evidence-based policy, where a careful weighing of the consequences and analyses of different positions leads to a…