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The Budget; After Hours style

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    #152
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Street lights to be switched off 2100-0700 to save on electricity bills
    Motor tax to be extended to pedestrian tax and cyclist tax - special stickers must be purchased from Revenue to allow movement on public roads.


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    #153
    Daniel S
    Registered Users Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Street lights to be switched off 2100-0700 to save on electricity bills
    Motor tax to be extended to pedestrian tax and cyclist tax - special stickers must be purchased from Revenue to allow movement on public roads.
    Stupidest suggestions I've seen yet.

    The most likely candidates in other words.

    :pac:


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    #154
    Mickey H
    Registered Users Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Anybody who has a duckface in a picture must pay a fine of 1500 euro. That'll turn the economy right around!
    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    And anyone who says "Amazeballs" gets a 10 grand levy and a swift kick in the balls.
    sensibleken wrote: »
    36% tax on using the word 'simples'. also a smack for using it too!

    Anyone who says ".com" after a sentence (E.g.: Bored.com) gets hit with a combination of the above.


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    #155
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    This Dail is like looking at a fruit and veg market shouting at each other.


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    #156
    ThinkAboutIt
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭ThinkAboutIt


    It wasnt that bad. Happy enough.


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    #157
    NinjaK
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭NinjaK


    Petrol going up is a kick in the balls


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    #158
    conor1979
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭conor1979


    lastlaugh wrote: »

    All I'm sayin is you should be eligible to pay a bit more tax if you don't have a mortgage or rent to pay and you are living in the family home!


    I dont have a mortgage because I chose not to get one and not to burden myself with the debt for the rest of my life.

    Why should anyone that made the same choice as me be made to pay more tax?

    People living at home with all this spare cash you talk about are more likely to either spend it, putting more money back into the economy and paying more VAT into the countrys coffers than those with mortgages that have to "tighten their belt" or they will save it and end up paying tax on the interest of that of at least 25%


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    #159
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    100% tax on everyone.
    Money allocated according to need.

    Solved.


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    #160
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    conor1979 wrote: »
    I dont have a mortgage because I chose not to get one and not to burden myself with the debt for the rest of my life.

    Why should anyone that made the same choice as me be made to pay more tax?

    People living at home with all this spare cash you talk about are more likely to either spend it, putting more money back into the economy and paying more VAT into the countrys coffers than those with mortgages that have to "tighten their belt" or they will save it and end up paying tax on the interest of that of at least 25%



    Exactly. People who work full-time and live with their parents generally have more disposable income than their peers who own/rent. That disposable income is going straight back into the economy. Taxing those people more would just be ridiculous.


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    #161
    BEASTERLY
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭BEASTERLY


    NinjaK wrote: »
    Petrol going up is a kick in the balls

    Only by 1.4c per litre, it fluctuates up and down more than every week anyway, wont be noticeble unless your watching out for it!


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    #162
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    BEASTERLY wrote: »
    Only by 1.4c per litre, it fluctuates up and down more than every week anyway, wont be noticeble unless your watching out for it!

    On my car it adds about 60 cents to a full tank. Im ok with that


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    #163
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users Posts: 11,843 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    Tax people with outie bellybuttons. €250pw. No rebates for getting converted to an innie.


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    #164
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Could have been worse.

    Peirce is still giving it with both barrells though.

    :D


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    #165
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    €60 a year on road tax is a bit steep. I wouldn't mind paying so much if they used it to fix the ****ing potholes.

    Haven't really looked at the rest of it yet - I'll have to try the KPMG calculator when they get it up & running.


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    #166
    FrostyJack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭FrostyJack


    €60 a year on road tax is a bit steep

    Is that only on the post 2008 tax band or on the pre-2008 car tax too?


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    #167
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    irish-stew wrote: »
    Could have been worse.

    Peirce is still giving it with both barrells though.

    :D

    well he would do being a shinner


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    #168
    Daniel S
    Registered Users Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    €60 a year on road tax is a bit steep. I wouldn't mind paying so much if they used it to fix the ****ing potholes.

    *sigh*

    Motor tax... ffs...

    Yes, I'm a cyclist, but also a driver.
    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    100% tax on everyone.
    Money allocated according to need.

    Solved.

    I would literally start killing before I agreed considered that. Fcuk I hate that socialist ideas. :pac:


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    #169
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    we need to convert our housing estates to ghost estates. Bags I Katy French's ghost!


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    #170
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users Posts: 8,797 ✭✭✭Red Silurian


    Public service: 50% cut on all Serving TD's, senators (until the senate is done away with) ex-presidents and president applied to wages and pensions!

    Education: All postgraduate courses 100% free for everyone. Courses that will power the future economy, also free at undergrad level. Wishey-Washey courses that result in their graduates joining the dole queue (we all know what courses these are) FULL FEES!

    VAT: 10%, if after 6 months there hasn't been considerable growth, 5%!

    Introduction of new start-up fund for kick-starting businesses. Investments will be made in "dragons den style"

    Duty on Beer - Reduce tax by same amount pubs will reduce it by to a maximum of 50c/pint. E.G. Publican reduces his price by 10c, duty reduced by 10c = 20c saving for customer. Another publican reduces by 50c, duty comes down 50c for this publican = €1 reduction for customer.


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