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Sinn Féin wants to abolish the property tax at a cost of €440 million
The party also proposes a 7% levy on incomes over €100,000.
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The party also proposes a 7% levy on incomes over €100,000.
The USC reductions do, for starters – but the social welfare changes don’t take effect for months.
The family types with the largest gains are “non-earning lone parents and unemployed couples” according to the ESRI
Questions surrounded one of the government’s biggest talking points from the Budget. FactCheck gets to the truth.
FactCheck attempts to referee a post-Budget dispute between a Fine Gael Junior Minister and an AAA-PBP TD.
The economist is rebooting his TV3 economics show Agenda for a new audience.
It’s understood the department will be calling for all childcare services and creches to be transparent and publish the cost of their fees.
The housing minister says first-time buyers are ‘locked out’ of the market.
Interest in new homes was greatest in the Dublin area, along with the Dublin commuter counties, said one property website.
TheJournal.ie asked your questions about housing and children live on Facebook this evening.
Politicians have come under fire for wage restoration they are due next year.
Cutting VAT on new homes would have been a better approach, one economist has said.
We asked the people of Dublin how much a pack of cigarettes should cost.
An extra 800 new gardaí are due to be recruited in 2017.
Vulture funds were using the section 110 loophole to avoid paying huge amounts of tax.
The Sinn Féin TD raised the Finance Minister’s age during a row in a panel debate on the Budget.
It is summed up by the fact that while TDs will benefit by more than €50 a week, young unemployed people will get a miserly €2.70, writes AAA-PBP TD Paul Murphy.
Politicians from multiple parties have been taking credit for yesterday’s Budget.
Finance Minister Michael Noonan stressed the importance of putting “in place safety nets to protect us against future economic shocks” from Brexit.
An increase in payments from the Government of €20 “wouldn’t burn a hole in their pockets for long,” one campaigner said.
The first recruitment campaign since the recession saw 20,000 people apply – just 5,000 people applied in the most recent drive.
We’ll be live at 7pm tomorrow so get your questions on housing and children in now.
Healy Rae was giving statements on the Budget when a well-known sound rang out.
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Young jobseekers will get an increase of €2.70 to their payment per week next year.
“Not at all Brexit-proof,” one lobby group leader said. “Shite,” said one (unnamed) TD.
An increase in the State pension of €5 per week was the much heralded measure the Government announced today.
Subsidised childcare, increased benefits for single parents and tax cuts will all benefit families.
Capital gains tax is largely unchanged and there will be no movement on company share schemes yet.
A number of measures have been introduced to try to ease the potential fallout from Brexit.
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However the earned income tax credit still lags behind the €1,650 automatic deduction available to PAYE workers.