Capital Gains Tax and Local Property Tax are in need of radical reform
At this time of year, officials in the Department of Finance survey the entire horizon of taxable activity in the hope of finding some low-hanging fruit which would help fund increased expenditure, lowering of other taxes, or debt reduction, or all three. As this activity coincides with the media silly season, the potential for scare […]
Our housing and home-ownership problems require more than government talking and hand-wringing
Irish society is sleep-walking towards another tipping point. That point is when the younger cohort of our state’s population begin to strongly believe that things are not going to be better for them than they were for their parents’ generation. It is, of course, good news 10 years after the financial crash that economic growth […]
Middle Ireland must end the stalemate in our politics
In a world in which this last week has seen the terrorist outrages in Spain, the departure of Steve Bannon as Trump’s strategy advisor, the flip-flopping of Trump on whether American neo-Nazis are to be condemned, the temporary cessation of Kim Jong Un’s plan to fire ICBMs at the seas surrounding Guam, the almost-instant collapse […]