# Bank Levy

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# windfall tax

Irish government dismisses suggestion of Italian-style windfall tax on bank profits

The future of Ireland’s existing bank levy will be decided in the Budget.

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Aug 10th 2023, 2:09 PM

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# Pay Up

Banks treating people on variable mortgage rates "very badly"

The Health Minister made the comment today.

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Apr 19th 2015, 2:21 PM

# Bank Levy

Bank levy will cost Bank of Ireland €40 million a year

The Government estimated that the levy would raise a total of €150 million for the exchequer each year from all Irish domestic banks.

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Nov 1st 2013, 4:53 PM

# Cyprus

Merkel ally admits European authorities underestimated Cyprus 'mess'

Elmar Brok, the chair of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, has admitted he can foresee a situation where Cyprus could exit the single currency and said that authorities underestimated the current situation there.

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Mar 23rd 2013, 4:30 PM

# Cyprus

Cypriot president: Bank deposits levy the 'least painful option'

“The solution we came to is certainly not the one we wanted, but its the least painful under the circumstances,” president Nicos Anastasiades said in a televised address to Cypriots this evening.

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Mar 17th 2013, 7:33 PM

Good Morning

The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Full recount ordered in Galway West; Irish banks tap the EU for more emergency funding, and the €288 million yacht being built by an African dictator’s son.

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Mar 1st 2011, 8:09 AM

# IMF

EU may push for bank levy instead of corporation tax rise

Introducing the levy could allow Ireland to save face in Europe – which is particularly important now that the IMF has said it is reluctant to pump money into the Irish banking sector.

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Nov 24th 2010, 10:59 AM