what else can we tax

jakdelad

lets help the govt out here
with ideas and preposals for a tax
let me kick off with
a tax on milk 2cent
everyone well almost everyone takes milk
anything mad we could tax??

UDAWINNER

fresh air.

phasers

Socks, tampons, spuds.

Cookie_Monster

coke
mc donalds
fatty foods

etc

children's allowance
houses / properties

children's shoes :P

trad

Glass, then we know it's daylight robbery.

yosemite_sam

Social Welfare, should be taxed, as a lot of people work whilst receiving it

phasers

yosemite_sam wrote: »

Social Welfare, should be taxed, as a lot of people work whilst receiving it

By taxed do you mean cut?

max 73

What about toilet roll tax.......it soaks up a lot but invariably gets flushed down the jax!

sollar

They should tax insurance premiums, bank cards and private pensions or is that too far fetched.

They should try taxing fun..... BTW i'm sick of this lot already can we get another general election soon.

The_Thing

Travellers

donkey balls

A bike tax after all they use public roads as well:rolleyes:.

Daegerty

donkey balls wrote: »

A bike tax after all they use public roads as well:rolleyes:.

Footpath tax. 100e a year to be allowed walk as much as you like on any of the beautifully made footpaths in the country? sounds reasonable

tbahh

new-born babies, the bigger they weigh, the more ye pay!

tenchi-fan

an entry fee to the bookies or pubs before 4pm

thebman

The black market :pac:

I think a txt levy would be a good idea. Most people have free texts from the network these days so a 5 cent levy on every text would make it like the old rates and probably enhance peoples productivity when at work :P

Permabear

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andrew

+1 To the children's shoes suggestion

Kojak

They could tax people for the amount of times they blinked in a day. They would generate huge income revenue that way. :rolleyes:

Tora Bora

Permabear wrote: »

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They taxed the pound of butter,
They taxed the halfpenny bun,
But still with all their taxes,
They couldn't bate the bloody hun,
So right away, so right away,
Right away Salonika, right away me soldier boy.

Jimmy Crowley .......... from Cork, boy!

jester77

Taking here in Germany as an example, Ireland is slowly catching up in terms of the taxes we pay. The only one I see missing, once water and property tax are introduced, is church tax. It's about 8% of income tax but it's supposed to go back to church. Might help pay for all the damage the church has caused down the years.

RichardAnd

Consider the goverment are intending to tax people on what they already own (property tax) and that they have also taken tentitive steps into private savings, I wouldn't be surprised to see a tax on having children.

Taxes are a self-defeating way to balance books. Cuts, whilst far more palpable in their affect on those who feel their sting, are more efficient as they keep money in taxpayers pockets which is what we need. It is my strongest opinion that taxes should never be raised until every bit of waste has been cut.

stargazer 68

How about taxing artists! I dont meant the bloke that sits on grafton street with a few paintings - I mean the big acts who do concerts here. Now maybe Im wrong - but Im sure someone on here will put me right - these acts dont pay tax on their earnings here?

irishh_bob

The_Thing wrote: »

Travellers

did you not know that paying tax is against traveller culture , along with painting sheds with paint as opposed to diesel , tarring driveways with macadam as opposed to god knows what and mending gutters with actual gutters as opposed to stolen gutters

Count Dooku

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax

careca11

well we are going to be practially taxed for taking a dump now as you have to flush the toilet, so a tax on air , a tax on having a wanch,
a tax on tax (actually we have that don't we)

its a fechin joke at this stage

Bruthal

A tax on boards posts.

Zamboni

Tax religious bodies as the corporations that they are.
The charitable element of the bodies can be audited and treated as non taxable.

bryaner

People seem to forget there's VAT on nearly everything mentioned.

faceman

jester77 wrote: »

Taking here in Germany as an example, Ireland is slowly catching up in terms of the taxes we pay. The only one I see missing, once water and property tax are introduced, is church tax. It's about 8% of income tax but it's supposed to go back to church. Might help pay for all the damage the church has caused down the years.

I don't think we'd be happy to pay a Berlin tax too tho!
Salaries in Germany are very high compared with Ireland so while we might be catching up, we're more crippled with gross pay

Also certain taxes in Germany decrease as you get older. Not a hope of that being introduced here.

Zamboni

jester77 wrote: »

Taking here in Germany as an example, Ireland is slowly catching up in terms of the taxes we pay. The only one I see missing, once water and property tax are introduced, is church tax. It's about 8% of income tax but it's supposed to go back to church. Might help pay for all the damage the church has caused down the years.

We already pay the damage done by the church.
Fianna Fail indemnified them after a certain point.
I would be hoping that we would be going the secular route and leave the chuch to their own devices.
Let them tax their own members.

R P McMurphy

Internet Usage

Every 5 mins online you have to pay €1

dan_d

A tax on radio talk shows.

Everytime they say the following words..Government, bailout, burn, bondholders, recession, on it's knees, troika, ECB, IMF, sarkozy, France, Germany,tax,levy, angry, public, private....(add more at will).

There could be different tax bands for saying all the words in one sentence, or one report. You could have a flat rate per word and..and... (rubbing hands together with glee!)...oh the potential!!!!

donkey balls

A weather tax if it rains we pay a tax(the govt wont know what to do with the extra revenue:rolleyes:)they could also have a tempature tax which would require the tempature to exceed 20 degrees before being exempt from paying the tax that would have to be a winner for them.

Hoffmans

tax on scumbag fat cat pensions especially ones who swindle mobile fone expenses an walk away with 2half million pension...

Max Power1

jester77 wrote: »

Taking here in Germany as an example, Ireland is slowly catching up in terms of the taxes we pay. The only one I see missing, once water and property tax are introduced, is church tax. It's about 8% of income tax but it's supposed to go back to church. Might help pay for all the damage the church has caused down the years.

Eh not a hope of that one. We need to move further to seperation of church and state, not regress.

Zamboni wrote: »

We already pay the damage done by the church.
Fianna Fail indemnified them after a certain point.
I would be hoping that we would be going the secular route and leave the chuch to their own devices.
Let them tax their own members.

+1

Manach

Whilst of course completely ignoring all the charitable contributions the Church has made to Irish society.

niemad

R P McMurphy wrote: »

Internet Usage

Every 5 mins online you have to pay €1

Really?? As if the price of internet in Ireland ain't bad enough. €12 an hour.... me sees the internet deaded :P

Zamboni

Manach wrote: »

Whilst of course completely ignoring all the charitable contributions the Church has made to Irish society.

Maybe you missed the bit where I said leave the charitable element of church activity as non taxable???

thirtythirty

Finger-blastin' tax.

Bout time all the young 'uns contributed something. Baby Wesley alone could plug Anglo's financial hole!

meditraitor

Ive seen it mentioned before but I think a tax on Golf Balls wouldnt cause the majority of the population any bother....€1 per ball for a start.

Tennis Balls as well, €5 per ball for these,

A tax on empty homes, anyone with an empty house or apartment lying idle should pay a waste of space tax! €1 per sq m per month.....

Any fresh produce imported from outside of the EU should have an extra tax, say 5c per kg.....

Speed Boats, an annual tax on these yokes

Skipping ropes, tax the fook out of these things

jakdelad

Dovies wrote: »

How about taxing artists! I dont meant the bloke that sits on grafton street with a few paintings - I mean the big acts who do concerts here. Now maybe Im wrong - but Im sure someone on here will put me right - these acts dont pay tax on their earnings here?

you like uber tax dodger BONO

keithclancy

Tax break for recycling
Tax the hole off rubbish

Amhran Nua

jester77 wrote: »

Taking here in Germany as an example, Ireland is slowly catching up in terms of the taxes we pay. The only one I see missing, once water and property tax are introduced, is church tax. It's about 8% of income tax but it's supposed to go back to church. Might help pay for all the damage the church has caused down the years.

Germany is maintaining a large fleet of ultra modern fighter bombers, divisions of heavy armour, and a proper navy. We, having no need to prove we're big and tough, aren't, and hence will never have to pay taxes on a level with Germany.

In reality, what we need to do is cut expenditure across the board. We can't tax our way out of this but we most certainly can cut our way out of it.

I'm in favour of taxing the assets of the church along the lines of the capital gains tax, to the tune of 20% of all property held in the state whether directly by the church or buried under administration companies, and doing the same thing every thirty years or so unless the church makes equivalent contributions to the exchequer.

Manach wrote: »

Whilst of course completely ignoring all the charitable contributions the Church has made to Irish society.

Yes its amazing how institutional protection of paedophiles can make people all judgemental.

keithclancy

Amhran Nua wrote: »

Germany is maintaining a large fleet of ultra modern fighter bombers, divisions of heavy armour, and a proper navy. We, having no need to prove we're big and tough, aren't, and hence will never have to pay taxes on a level with Germany.

In reality, what we need to do is cut expenditure across the board. We can't tax our way out of this but we most certainly can cut our way out of it.

I'm in favour of taxing the assets of the church along the lines of the capital gains tax, to the tune of 20% of all property held in the state whether directly by the church or buried under administration companies, and doing the same thing every thirty years or so unless the church makes equivalent contributions to the exchequer.


Yes its amazing how institutional protection of paedophiles can make people all judgemental.

You'll be stuck with Bus Eireann in that case :P

Rubik.

Bring back the window tax.

whatdoicare

I'm liking that church tax idea- lets go with that one! BUT wouldn't they have to allow people to leave the church again? Or would the government use that not being allowed leave the church thing to tax Athiests who couldn't get out in time?

jester77

whatdoicare wrote: »

I'm liking that church tax idea- lets go with that one! BUT wouldn't they have to allow people to leave the church again? Or would the government use that not being allowed leave the church thing to tax Athiests who couldn't get out in time?

It could be taken from the census. In Germany everyone is registered at their local Amt and part of that registration is declaring your religion. Anyone who doesn't pay the tax has no use of church facilities/services, i.e, baptism, confirmation, weddings, funerals, etc. Can't really complain with that.

irishh_bob

faceman wrote: »

I don't think we'd be happy to pay a Berlin tax too tho!
Salaries in Germany are very high compared with Ireland so while we might be catching up, we're more crippled with gross pay

Also certain taxes in Germany decrease as you get older. Not a hope of that being introduced here.

i thought wages in germany were a lot lower than in ireland

whatdoicare

jester77 wrote: »

It could be taken from the census. In Germany everyone is registered at their local Amt and part of that registration is declaring your religion. Anyone who doesn't pay the tax has no use of church facilities/services, i.e, baptism, confirmation, weddings, funerals, etc. Can't really complain with that.

I like it- it's fair enough! I'm baptised but didn't get married in a church, don't plan to baptise my kiddies (not even to get them into school) and won't be having a catholic funeral. - I bet we'd see a fair big change in the amount of people ticking the Catholic box if we did!

Head The Wall

Manach wrote: »

Whilst of course completely ignoring all the charitable contributions the Church has made to Irish society.

Charity rape? Can't say I've ever heard of that happening

jester77

irishh_bob wrote: »

i thought wages in germany were a lot lower than in ireland

Gross would be about the same, maybe a little lower in Germany. Net is substantially lower due to higher taxes and mandatory health insurance (health insurance is around 15%, half covered by the employer)