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What will the next tax be.

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    #122
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,436 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    But it makes me look sexy

    I wont disagree :P

    BAe14dEvRXn


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    #123
    Checkmate19
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 564 ✭✭✭Checkmate19


    Sugar tax is pure stupid. Its on sugar drinks that most responsible parents are not giving there kids. Also if adults are buying sugar drinks they know. One tax they they need the biggest cancer on this society is betting tax. Ruining a lot of lives in this country. But no probably to many tds and party boys in the pockets of paddy power and boyle.


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    #124
    Checkmate19
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 564 ✭✭✭Checkmate19


    Paddy power watched a guy rob 1.7m and gamble it TO PADDY give him comps etc etc go to jail. Paddy power is great. Slowly they are letting casiono **** into bookies here. Not a word said. The politicans only try sort out people lobby on like min pricing on alcohol. Like the pubs done. The minister for health today is in the dock standing over 17 deaths and hell be back trying to preach over min pricing on alcohol. Pure and utter clown.


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    #125
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,535 ✭✭✭worded


    A Tax on Tax twke

    Just add 1% tax on the take to existing tax to collect more

    An admin fee or what ever way it can be justified


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    #126
    erica74
    Registered Users Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭erica74


    Checkmate19 wrote: »
    Paddy power watched a guy rob 1.7m and gamble it TO PADDY give him comps etc etc go to jail.

    What's this story about?


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    #127
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    They should have a water tax.


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    #128
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    erica74 wrote: »
    What's this story about?

    It’s a nonsense sensationalist view of a guy who stole millions from An Post and gambled it away. You’d swear Paddy was standing over him as he nicked it.


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    #129
    Beta Ray Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    Checkmate19 wrote: »
    Paddy power watched a guy rob 1.7m and gamble it TO PADDY give him comps etc etc go to jail. Paddy power is great. Slowly they are letting casiono **** into bookies here. Not a word said. The politicans only try sort out people lobby on like min pricing on alcohol. Like the pubs done. The minister for health today is in the dock standing over 17 deaths and hell be back trying to preach over min pricing on alcohol. Pure and utter clown.

    Are you talking about the post office lad?

    Wasn't that back in 2012?


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    #130
    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    I think the sugar tax is a stupid idea if it’s for tackling obesity. It would have been better to remove vat on food and replace it with a calorie tax. Somewhere between .1c and .2c per calorie so people are paying roughly the same amount of tax previously but it puts higher taxes on people who eat in excess and reduces the cost of healthy foods.


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    #131
    Beta Ray Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Beta Ray Bill


    GarIT wrote: »
    I think the sugar tax is a stupid idea if it’s for tackling obesity. It would have been better to remove vat on food and replace it with a calorie tax. Somewhere between .1c and .2c per calorie so people are paying roughly the same amount of tax previously but it puts higher taxes on people who eat in excess and reduces the cost of healthy foods.

    That would be sexist.
    Man needs 2500kcal a day, a woman needs 2000kcal a day.
    At €0.02 you's be talking nearly €18,250 a year for a man and €14,600 for a woman.

    No thanks...


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    #132
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,181 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Existence tax. Introduced as a temporary 'desperate measure' during the next recession in order to preserve the fractional reserve banking system for another decade or so will see everyone paying €1,000 a year for the privilege of staying alive


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    #133
    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    grahambo wrote: »
    That would be sexist.
    Man needs 2500kcal a day, a woman needs 2000kcal a day.
    At €0.02 you's be talking nearly €18,250 a year for a man and €14,600 for a woman.

    No thanks...

    .2c or €0.002 not €0.02. I guess it is a bit sexist but it’s no more sexist than vat on food, women eat less so pay less. It just shifts the tax from being based on how expensive food is to based how many calories are in it and therefore how much of a strain you will likely put on publicly funded health services.


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    #134
    Noo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭Noo


    Bear tax


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    #135
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,815 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Motor tax is definitely getting an overhaul soon. How do I know? I can nearly afford a car with the cheap tax now. So as soon as I can afford it, the tax will go up.


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    #136
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    GarIT wrote: »
    I think the sugar tax is a stupid idea if it’s for tackling obesity. It would have been better to remove vat on food and replace it with a calorie tax.

    Most foods are exempt from VAT.


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    #137
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    They will start charging for the electricity generated from solar panels.


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    #138
    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Geuze wrote: »
    Most foods are exempt from VAT.

    I didn't know that.


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    #139
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    GarIT wrote: »
    I didn't know that.

    Have a look at an Aldi or Lidl receipt.

    Every product is coded with a letter which corresponds to 0%, 9%, 13.5% or 23% VAT.

    OK, some foods do have 23% VAT, e.g. sweets, choc, etc.

    And some processed baked goods are at 9%/13.5%.

    But most are at 0%.

    The receipts will breakdown how much VAT you paid at each rate.


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    #140
    Autecher
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    I reckon they will eventually bring in a "Your Ma" tax. So every time someone says "your ma" they have to pay tax. It's a potential goldmine that I can't believe hasn't been explored yet.


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    #141
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,806 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Ubbquittious wrote:
    Existence tax. Introduced as a temporary 'desperate measure' during the next recession in order to preserve the fractional reserve banking system for another decade or so will see everyone paying €1,000 a year for the privilege of staying alive


    Some believe, including myself, that fractional reserve banking actually doesn't exist, as it implies banks lend out reserves, but they actually don't, as the majority of money is in fact created by banks in the form of loans by a method that's commonly called 'double entry bookkeeping'.


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    #142
    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭daheff


    lawred2 wrote: »
    I would expect that most people get illness benefit at their work

    you would expect wrongly

    a lot of people do not get any additional benefits at work. salary and thats it


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    #143
    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭daheff


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Some believe, including myself, that fractional reserve banking actually doesn't exist, as it implies banks lend out reserves, but they actually don't, as the majority of money is in fact created by banks in the form of loans by a method that's commonly called 'double entry bookkeeping'.

    You know a deposit is actually a loan(to the bank) ? and involves double entry bookkeeping too?


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    #144
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Straws, hopefully.



    Or a tax on women that wear Under Armour / Nike leggings yet haven't been to the gym.
    Or a tax on men wearing leggings under shorts in the gym.


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    #145
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Some believe, including myself, that fractional reserve banking actually doesn't exist, as it implies banks lend out reserves, but they actually don't, as the majority of money is in fact created by banks in the form of loans by a method that's commonly called 'double entry bookkeeping'.

    If a bank receives a deposit of 100, they keep some in reserve, and lend out the balance.

    To say they "lend out reserves" is a bit confusing.


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    #146
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    lawred2 wrote: »
    I would expect that most people get illness benefit at their work

    Employers do not have to pay sick pay.


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    #147
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,281 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Geuze wrote: »
    Employers do not have to pay sick pay.

    Did I say that?


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    #148
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,635 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    They will start charging for the electricity generated from solar panels.

    Sshhh!!!! Are you nuts?! That's just evil!
    And workable.
    I would guess when selling the electricity back into the grid, tax would apply to the money paid for it.
    I think they did something like that in Spain.
    Yep, they did:
    https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/10/spain-approves-sun-tax-discriminates-against-solar-pv.html

    Spanish government are an even worse shower of corrupt bastards.


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    #149
    na1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭na1


    CeilingFly wrote: »
    Isn't funny how those that moan about tax, never comment about the very generous children's allowance, the near free (compared to most countries) education, the subsidised public transport, the generous social welfare system, the decent state pension.

    Imagine if you had to pay no tax, but in return get nothing free - no free water, no free education and no social welfare and no children's allowance and no state pension.

    Imagine how much that would all cost you? I bet you'd beg to go back to paying the current rates of tax.
    According to this:
    http://www.publicpolicy.ie/where-does-your-tax-go/
    I'm better off paying for everything from my pocket rather than being taxed on income... and this doesn't count the VAT and the excise duty on fuel.


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    #150
    VinLieger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,652 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Minimum alcohol isnt a tax, the state will get very little out of this pointless piece of legislation


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    #151
    na1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭na1


    CeilingFly wrote: »
    Studies prove that sugar is the primary cause of excessive weight in people. The sugar tax is not a solution in itself, but puts the issue in front of parents every time they shop.


    There is no study to prove that  taxing sugar will help
    The low calories sweetener drinks don't help fighting the obesity also.


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