NERI Seminar: Wealth Tax - Options for its implementation in the Republic of Ireland
Presentation of Tom McDonnell regarding the implementation of a wealth tax in Ireland. Event details can be found here. The full paper can be found here.
Wealth Tax: Options for its Implementation In the Republic of Ireland
This paper considers the advantages and disadvantages of introducing a net wealth tax in the Republic of Ireland. The implications for vertical and horizontal equity are discussed, as are the implications for economic efficiency, growth, savings and potential capital flight. There are other major...
Child Poverty - North &South
One in every five children on the island of Ireland lives in a household with an income below the poverty line. In the Republic, the latest CSO data suggests 18.8% of children live in poverty. In Northern Ireland, 22% of children are in poverty. In both, the trend over time has been one of slow...
NERI Seminar: QEO Autumn 2013
Presentation of the Autumn 2013 NERI Quarterly Economic Observer, September 18th 2013.
Retraining and activating the ‘distant unemployed’:
External event contribution Presentation to the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, 34th Annual Conference, Trinity College Dublin - September 13th 2013.
Quarterly Economic Facts - Autumn 2013
Recent years have seen a huge growth in the supply, range and timeliness of data from a variety of official agencies including the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)...
Income Taxes and Income Tax Options: A Context for Budget 2014
The remaining gap between Ireland’s total government revenue and total expenditure, the budget deficit, sets the context for the fiscal adjustment planned for Budget 2014 (October 2013). Under the terms of Ireland’s Memorandum of Understanding with the Troika (EC, ECB and IMF) that deficit should...
Quarterly Economic Observer - Autumn 2013 - "Budget 2014 - Income Taxes and High Earners"
This edition of the NERI’s Quarterly Economic Observer (QEO) outlines our latest expectations for the economic outlook in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (Section 3) and develops the NERI’s proposals for the forthcoming Budget 2014 fiscal adjustment planned in the Republic (Section 4)...
Monday Blog: Ireland - a place of tax safety and refuge ?
Writing in the Irish Times recently, Feargal O’Rourke head of tax at PwC Ireland declares: ‘What can be said with absolute certainty is that every company within the charge to Irish tax pays tax at 12.5 per cent on their activities – that is a fact.’ (‘ Whatever way you look at it, Ireland is not a...
Monday Blog: Northern Ireland economy
The annual Northern Ireland Economic Conference took place yesterday in Belfast. Typically it is one of the main annual events in Northern Ireland where senior policy makers, academics and business interests gather to debate and consider the major economic issues confronting us. While the balance of...