Widening of the tax band and help for renters and bills are the main items by the looks of it.
How will this year's budget affect you?
Lots of people earn between €37k and €50k in Ireland. For them, the €60 to €70 back in tax each month is the only help they got in the budget (outside of the energy credit). I don’t know how anyone could begrudge them it.
This group is also outside the earning threshold for many government hand outs and supports.
A good day.
So you have never got anything from the government ever?
You never went to a public school? Drove on a road, walked on a footpath? Been to hospital.
Your parents didn't get children allowance, or you don't get any for your kids if you have any?
Could go on and on but the truth is Ireland is a pretty good place to live in with a very high standard of living and governments over the years have played a major part in that.
Why should working/middle class homeowners not get given solar, HP and ufh the same as council properties ?
Your being disingenuous there are people who pay a lot of tax and get very little in return and if they ever have to use a resource they have to pay again. Private health care, private pensions. Toll bridges etc. Some pay nothing get lots of freebies housing, fuel, etc. Welfare will actively be competing with the minimum wage after that budget to a higher degree than before and that goes up the chain with low paid with the government allowances/grants are competing with the middle income earners. At some point people will start wondering why are they bothering.
They probably said the same years ago when they started to build council houses with indoor toilets.
It's called progress and is part of environmental targets.
I personally think its a good thing council properties have these measures done.
The love just needs to be spread around a little more though.
Nah mate. Those are luxuries. Luxeries that cost an absolute fortune for people like me self building, or those buying.
look at it this way , a private owner on the same street is living in a colder house that costs more to run than a lad scratching his hole across the road. I get what your saying but it is a bit of a kick in the teeth to already getting the house heavily subsidized(I won’t say free incase someone tells me that their 30 euro a week is paying rent)
Yeah but who's getting the benefit and whos paying for it.
I only signed on last week and now I’m getting double dole, wahey!
So are you saying income tax should be gotten rid of and replaced with much higher levels of VAT?
There could have been an argument to reduce the rates of VAT to put money in all consumers pockets. Unfortunately the only VAT reduction appears to have been on newspapers, and it will be interesting to see if the price of a paper actually reduces.
Free energy upgrades for welfare recipients is fine but the working family is expected to pay through the nose for them. The grants available are nowhere enough with too much red tape and just ends up in the contractors pocket anyway.
No, there are five rates of USC compared to two rates of income tax, that is certainly more progressive. Furthermore, USC does not encourage tax avoidance through the use of hundreds of different reliefs.
What does the recent minimum wage rise amount to weekly after tax? About €20 a week would be a rough guess. Meanwhile €12 handed to those who will not work these jobs in retail, hotels etc.
Not even mentioning the extortionate costs of travelling to said minimum wage job.
That is very very wrong.
blockwork, mortar, foundations, subfloors, screeds, intermediate concrete floor slabs... hell even tile grout....
as a conservative figure id estimate this measure alone will put about 7% - 8% on top of an already inflated construction cost.... so your €250,000 build cost for your one off house will now cost you €270,000
in my opinion this measure will be comparable with Michael McDowells 'stamp duty' comments in 2006 for stopping house builds in ireland
Disabilities-related issues are comparable to most countries in the EU and the rate of payment is at the higher end.
What is missing when you look at the Irish system are the case-management multi-disciplinary efforts to get those who have a disability to the stage where they can participate in the workforce.
Yawn, boards always the same guff - bashing people on the dole.
I wish you would all go on the dole for a few years lads.
You think it's a great life yet don't want it?
Strange that.
Well it does not really help me much, but I can see how it will keep people a bit further from trouble. That's a good thing.
Selfishly I just hoped for it to just help a little bit more for those of us on slightly higher than average wage
It's a 10% levy. Not 100%
By your calculations the cost of concrete and associated products would be €200,000 per house.
The Simon Community?
Is that the charity where the CEO earns around 100k, and there are 7 others paid more than 70k?
Are we all socialists now?
When I read that I was thinking which period?The Victorian?
Say a 2 story cost €500,000, would it be fair to say the concrete would be €200,000 (I have no idea)? Adding €20,000 onto house cost?
Eoin Ó Broin didn't have much to say on Newstalk there. A few of the usual moans but nothing substantial about the budget itself. Sinn Féin got outflanked in spending by FFG.
I’d imagine what “they would rather see” is to be afforded the same privileges and to also be supplied with the solar panels and heat pumps etc. to reduce their bills also.
If it can be provided to one group of society that never have and never will contribute towards the costs of running the country why can’t it be provided for those of us that do contribute?
Happy enough with the budget, works out an extra 69 a month take home.
However, BIK increases coming in January will reduce this to near zero change. I can't really complain as I have no motoring costs.
Absolutely.
He was scraping around trying to find something to criticise.
Something of a masterstroke by Paschal & Co.
What are the new income limits for fuel allowance?
Ah Jesus, what are the BIK increases?
Benefit In Kind.
€200 above the State Contributory Pension it seems - don't know if that's assessed on weekly or monthly income tho
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