they should increase their salaries for doing a good job
“Last month alone, €6.4bn in taxes were collected – nearly a third more than August 2021”
Wouldn’t be hard we were closed in 2021
“Some of the strong tax take is due to the so-called base effect, whereby comparisons to last year’s lockdown economy flatter this year’s receipts.”
Yup
Bet they aren’t talking about inflation, prices up = taxes up
Let’s blow it all on subsidy schemes that enrich private business and don’t fix the roots of our problems
More money to funnel into the lads packets
In typical Irish fashion we are all ignoring the warnings about this being a temporary surge, and not a single political party is suggesting we save this instead of spending it. Let’s remember this in a few years when we have to have austerity budgets to reverse spending and the various Captain Hindsights are wondering why we spent the tax income.
Let’s increase HAP limits and piss it all away! Woohoo
This is going to be used to give energy allowances so people can pay these ridiculous profiteering rates rather than just capping them.
Why do i bet all this surplus wont be helping the worker any time soon
Anything to be said for saving some of it for the next recession when a healthy capital expenditure fund might make the difference between a short recession and more years of depression? Or putting some of it towards the hundreds of billions we owe?
White water rafting here we come!
If the government used this money to sell all gas via Gas Networks Ireland at the price it was last year (taking a huge loss in the process) wouldn’t it nip the energy crisis in the bud and there’d be no real need for any other measures?
Home heating oil and car fuel would still be dearer but everyone will save on the cost of electricity so we’ll just shoulder those two expenses.
Fuck in hell, they must not have left a single seat cushion unturned in Leinster House with all the extra money they are finding!!
and into landlord TD pockets it goes.
or blackholed into some management
GIF THE MONEY BACK NOW
They’ll hand huge chunks of it to pensioners to buy votes
Should go straight to accidental landlords and energy companies. They need help
They need to drastically increase the threshold for the 40% rate of income tax. It’s absolutely absurd what is going on with their taxation policy.
We are committed to making real changes that will help people. We have increased the standard rate tax band by 1000 euro. That’s an an extra fiver a week in your pocket and not the taxman! Thanks see you next year.
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Cheaper pints on the table so????
they should increase their salaries for doing a good job
“Last month alone, €6.4bn in taxes were collected – nearly a third more than August 2021”
Wouldn’t be hard we were closed in 2021
“Some of the strong tax take is due to the so-called base effect, whereby comparisons to last year’s lockdown economy flatter this year’s receipts.”
Yup
Bet they aren’t talking about inflation, prices up = taxes up
Let’s blow it all on subsidy schemes that enrich private business and don’t fix the roots of our problems
More money to funnel into the lads packets
In typical Irish fashion we are all ignoring the warnings about this being a temporary surge, and not a single political party is suggesting we save this instead of spending it. Let’s remember this in a few years when we have to have austerity budgets to reverse spending and the various Captain Hindsights are wondering why we spent the tax income.
Let’s increase HAP limits and piss it all away! Woohoo
[Michael and Leo be buyin votes like that…](https://media1.giphy.com/media/l41lFvtuqmey9QTAY/giphy.gif?cid=790b761189231eb461948c5be2aace88df0bb594ec8b9082&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Energy providers have entered the chat.
This is going to be used to give energy allowances so people can pay these ridiculous profiteering rates rather than just capping them.
Why do i bet all this surplus wont be helping the worker any time soon
Anything to be said for saving some of it for the next recession when a healthy capital expenditure fund might make the difference between a short recession and more years of depression? Or putting some of it towards the hundreds of billions we owe?
White water rafting here we come!
If the government used this money to sell all gas via Gas Networks Ireland at the price it was last year (taking a huge loss in the process) wouldn’t it nip the energy crisis in the bud and there’d be no real need for any other measures?
Home heating oil and car fuel would still be dearer but everyone will save on the cost of electricity so we’ll just shoulder those two expenses.
Fuck in hell, they must not have left a single seat cushion unturned in Leinster House with all the extra money they are finding!!
and into landlord TD pockets it goes.
or blackholed into some management
GIF THE MONEY BACK NOW
They’ll hand huge chunks of it to pensioners to buy votes
Should go straight to accidental landlords and energy companies. They need help
They need to drastically increase the threshold for the 40% rate of income tax. It’s absolutely absurd what is going on with their taxation policy.
We are committed to making real changes that will help people. We have increased the standard rate tax band by 1000 euro. That’s an an extra fiver a week in your pocket and not the taxman! Thanks see you next year.