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Sat 11 Nov 2009Finally facing up to issue of under-taxation
Brian Lenihan this week signalled a willingness to reverse his party’s irresponsible policies, writes GARRET FITZGERALD
I AM glad that the issue of under-taxation is at last being seriously discussed. Throughout this crisis there has, of course, been some pressure to increase taxation on those with higher incomes, eg more than €100,000 a year. But there has been an astonishing silence about the much more striking fact that, by comparison with the rest of the developed world, Irish under-taxation is in fact more marked at much lower income levels.
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