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Saturday 28 May 2022
Minister Phil Hogan said increasing indirect taxes rather than income tax would give consumers “some choices” in their spending.
Retail Ireland has called on the government not to increase excise duty and not to shift the payment of sick leave onto employers in the Budget next week.
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The Minister for the Environment confirmed that road taxes will be increased in the Budget for 2012.
In tonight’s fix: Darren Scully in tears; fears for the euro; concern for George Michael and anti-austerity protests on the streets of Dublin.
Turnout was reported to be less than two-thousand people.
The Budget for next year will be unveiled by Brendan Howlin and Michael Noonan on the 5 and 6 December.
The trade union-backed rally is to take place in Dublin city centre from noon today.
The Minister for Finance concedes that his plans for a 2 per cent increase in VAT did not allow for the impact on spending.
The Irish Tax Institute says some employees have already lost a sixth of their take-home pay – and are now at ‘tipping point’.
The plan aims to make Ireland “the best small country in Europe in which to do business by 2016″ says Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton.
Cathal Magee will face questions about the health service crisis when he appears before an Oireachtas committee.
Health Minister James Reilly is considering introducing an annual €50 charge on all medical cards. Today, we’re asking what do you think about the proposal?
Taoiseach Enda Kenny tells Dáil today that draft proposals were shown to German parliament as a constitutional requirement of… the German parliament.
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Leo Varadkar says that while the higher rate of VAT might be going up, the new 9 per cent rate for tourism is here to stay.
Ministers are due to meet this morning for final discussions on next month’s Budget, with welfare expected to be on the chopping block.
The Ryanair CEO said that he thinks child benefit should be abolished, calling it an “absurdity”.
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Labour’s Jan O’Sullivan has admitted that child benefit could be subject to cuts, despite warnings it could “push families into poverty”.
Catch up on the day’s main stories as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed…
The government says cutting public jobs will save €2.5bn by 2015 – but the European Commission’s draft report is far less optimistic.
Briefing notes prepared for German MPs also predict that employment will continue to fall next year, and that Ireland may miss bank targets.
TheJournal.ie has obtained the documents, given to German MPs, which outline the contents of the 2012 and 2013 Budgets.
The documents sent to Germany’s parliamentary committees were compiled by Brussels while Ireland was busy with its election.
It is understood the documents were disclosed to a German finance committee after being passed to it by the EU-IMF troika.
The Department of Finance has insisted that no decisions have been made but a document in the German Bundestag says different.
The children’s charity estimates that there could be nearly 130,000 children living in consistent poverty in Ireland.
The Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed welcomes Fergus O’Dowd’s assurance that welfare rates will not be cut.
Meanwhile consumption of cheaper rolled tobacco has increased dramatically.
THE GREAT AND the good from the world of spuds will be converging on Ireland next week when the World Potato Congress rolls into town.
The Irish Potato Federation is hosting the 11th meeting of the event, which is set to attract delegates from over 60 countries.
The focus of the congress is to bring the global potato community together and its overarching theme this year is the “changing world of the potato”.
The spud industry is keen to highlight that potatoes are the world’s third most important crop, after wheat and rice.
There are over 300 million tonnes of potatoes produced annually, consumed by over one billion people worldwide.
So, today we’re asking: What’s your favourite way to eat potatoes?
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