@liamgallagher - 4 tickets! Delighted. See you at Slane 🏰. Will be hard to top Croker but I have faith!
Drop us a DM if about for pint before the gig 🍺🇮🇪
Good piece here on why Ireland is ranked worst-in-Europe on personal taxes. The top German rate is 45%, but applies to income well over a quarter of a million euro.
In Ireland, the government takes 48% on anything above €44,000, which was the average earnings in 2024 (latest CSO figures available). It moves to 52% at anything above $70,000, as the higher USC kicks in.
For around 4 in 10 people, the government takes more of their overtime, extra work, bonuses and pay increases than they do.
Personal tax rates soared to address a fiscal crisis 18 years ago. The crisis is long resolved, but taxes were never restored.
It's long past time to cut personal tax rates and end the injustice of people on average incomes having the government take more of their pay increases, overtime and bonuses than they get to keep for themselves.
The top tax rates of 52% for employees and 55% for the self-employed disincentivise work and are plainly unfair.