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# bank-levy - Sunday 19 April, 2015

# Pay Up

Banks treating people on variable mortgage rates "very badly"

Apr 19th 2015, 2:21 PM 12,323 Views 84 Comments

The Health Minister made the comment today.

# bank-levy - Friday 1 November, 2013

# Bank Levy

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

Nov 1st 2013, 4:53 PM 7,372 Views 22 Comments

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

# bank-levy - Saturday 23 March, 2013

# Cyprus

Merkel ally admits European authorities underestimated Cyprus 'mess'

Mar 23rd 2013, 4:30 PM 6,521 Views 43 Comments

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.

# bank-levy - Sunday 17 March, 2013

# Cyprus

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

Mar 17th 2013, 7:33 PM 9,461 Views 90 Comments

“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.

# bank-levy - Tuesday 1 March, 2011

Good Morning - Mar 1st 2011, 8:09 AM

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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# bank-levy - Wednesday 24 November, 2010

# IMF

EU may push for bank levy instead of corporation tax rise

Nov 24th 2010, 10:59 AM 610 Views 0 Comments

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.