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Discriminatory tax rates

  • 27-09-2016 1:43pm
    #1
    ezra_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭


    Its been a few years since I did my FE1s, and I remember discrimination claims being the ones that lay people made when they were upset, but surely the below would fall foul:

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/special-tax-deal-to-lure-emigrants-with-high-skills-home-35082046.html

    If I was in a role that matched one of those breaks and was able to prove that the only difference between me and the person on the tax break was that they had returned to work, the break must either fail or be offered to anyone performing that role?


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  • #2
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭Allinall


    ezra_ wrote: »
    Its been a few years since I did my FE1s, and I remember discrimination claims being the ones that lay people made when they were upset, but surely the below would fall foul:

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/special-tax-deal-to-lure-emigrants-with-high-skills-home-35082046.html

    If I was in a role that matched one of those breaks and was able to prove that the only difference between me and the person on the tax break was that they had returned to work, the break must either fail or be offered to anyone performing that role?

    I would have thought it would be more a matter of residency rather than the role involved.

    There are certain residency rules in place at the moment where two people could be sitting side by side doing the exact same job for 5 1/2 months of the year. With one paying no tax at all.


  • #3
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,627 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Allinall wrote: »
    I would have thought it would be more a matter of residency rather than the role involved.

    There are certain residency rules in place at the moment where two people could be sitting side by side doing the exact same job for 5 1/2 months of the year. With one paying no tax at all.

    Your second paragraph is incorrect; the income from an Irish office or employment remains taxable in Ireland even in the hands of a non resident. This issue is faced by cross border workers everyday of the working week.


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