"I'd like any tax break where risk is rewarded"

Ms Audrey Glynn, managing director, G&M Industrial Cleaning Cloths, Dublin

Ms Audrey Glynn, managing director, G&M Industrial Cleaning Cloths, Dublin

I'M THE owner and manager of my own company since 1985. I have 20 employees. We recycle cleaning cloths and make the household brand Spick and Span.

In general, whatever they say about this big wave of buoyancy, we're not seeing a lot of it in this sector. Things could be worse, but there's no great boom for us.

I have a young staff, and a high staff turnover. What I'd like to see in the Budget is an increase in their take home pay. This could be done by reducing their tax and PRSI, reducing employer's PRSI, widening the bands and increasing tax free allowances.

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I have a problem with high staff turnover, people come in to work, and no sooner have I trained them up than they decide that staying in bed in the morning is preferable to getting up and going to work. What I'd like to see in the Budget is any reduction in the tax wedge, so that it's more attractive to go to work.

There's a particular problem with unmarried parents. Often, when a young woman has a child, the benefits from the State are more attractive to her than her salary, minus her childcare costs.

Personally, I'd like to see some of the benefits staff enjoy being extended to owners, such as maternity leave. If I get pregnant, I don't get maternity leave, and I have to pay someone to replace me at work.

It's that whole culture where no bone rewards the risk. So, I'd like to break or incentive, where I'd like to be able to reinvest in my own company with my own salary - there was a scheme where the reinvestment was taxed at only 10 per cent, but it was abolished.