Declan Jordan: Covid Crisis Shows Need for Basic Income Scheme
Rory O’Farrell: Time To Raise Taxes Not Cut Them
Laura Bambrick: The State of Sick Pay in Ireland is Sickening
Ciarán Nugent: Irish income figures exclude key sources of income for top earners and overstate the income of many low-wage workers
A piece from the Irish Examiner today on the above is here. And below are some exhibits of the figures used in the piece.
1. Corporate Tax Revenues in the EU15 since 1965
2. Income Statements of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft in 2019
3. Profit and Tax of Apple Inc. from January 2010 to December 2019
4. Stateless Entities in the OECD’s Country-by-Country Statistics, 2016
5. Profit and Effective Taxes of Companies in Ireland by Jurisdiction of Ultimate Parent, 2016
Information on the budgetary package is available from this webpage. Some costings and other details are provided in this short document.
Sean Barrett in the Irish Independent today.
The Fiscal Council has published its first Long-Term Sustainability Report. The full report, a summary and other accompanying material is available here.