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?
Bill Cullen in the house.
You are not being punished, you pay tax, welcome to the real world. You got a tax cut today by the way, a minor enough one, but you got one nontheless.
I hear Eritrea has low taxes if it bothers you so much.
Did I write this, in a fugue state...?
He was schooled tonight by the ever-assured Pascal Donohoe.
Pascal is Pearse's Kryptonite
Careful that you don't get splinters, pulling up that ladder
I'm also always highly suspicous of Frank Grimes stories on boards.
What he was doing paying full fees when he was entitled to the free scheme having never been to 3rd level before is also a mystery.
Anyone who can afford a new car can pay the feckin €5k themselves.
Same shyte back in 2008 with the motor tax changes, new car - here's €180 motor tax bill.
You got a 2004 reg there - naw, that'll be €790 instead.
Explain how a €48.50 bag of coal emits less C02 than the same bag at €40.00.
It's not about affordability, it's about creating incentives for people to make choices that are better for society at large, ones that mean our children aren't choking on heavily polluted air and have a slightly better chance of growing up in a habitable planet.
Why?
A sizable proportion are anti-social - their vastly subsidised social housing is often unkept with weeds 2ft high and when you go down the local after working your b***ox off all week there are some of those anti-social types there and regularly are involved in causing a disturbance.
You were a mature student aged 23-26 approx.
By aged 35 you earn 250k+.
What industry is this!!!!!!????
That a graduate can earn 250k in under ten years!!!
A good question.
CB has not been increased for years. That is deliberate.
Extra funds go towards childcare, and the QCI.
It was a correspondence course in nuclear physics, with a minor in determination.
Yes.
My parents are 75 and 80 approx.
They have a house worth, say 300-350k, and financial assets of 400k approx.
They pay 8%-9% direct tax on their 50k income.
In return, they receive:
two FTP
two medical cards
free TV licence
35 pm off the elec bill
Ireland is very generous.
When I told my mother she will get 3*200 = 600 off the elec bill, she couldn't believe it.
I quote her response: "Ireland is such a great country"
And you would be completly off the mark with that, report issued only last week on the topic
I would take that as a source of comfort although others would probably whinge about it.
The UK has abrogated its responsibility towards millions of its citizens.
Go to some-off-the-beaten path urban areas in Britain and you'll realise they've made a lot of the country a sink and aren't interested in pulling people out of it. They're on their own.
Becoming a crypto millionaire with a year in industry at the playboy mansion from the university of hard knocks.
A politician I'd say...
Just reading about the renters tax credit.
A stroke of genuis from the government. Will probably bring in quite a bit of money to the exchequer via landlords who are RTB and Revenue-shy getting their story straightened out for them tax wise.
My mother lives in a coucil house her options are burn something in the stove and heat the via back boiler or go cold...all good trying to make dirty fuels less attractive, but alternatives are required first
This is Ireland, there's no such thing as people being well off, they will be taxed to the hilt to bring the welfare class up.
It's not just obvious in taxes, it's the same with investments, take a chance and the government has its grubby hands over your investment take before it even matures.
It's too late for me but leave this country if you want to make money.
Paschal has really brought the Ayn Randites out of the woodwork today.
That's not true, Ireland is not a poor nation, we can afford to support the disadvantaged. Some people won't be happy until they see reports of widescale starvation in council estates.
Probably cause it’s not means tested so you’d have the cries Michael O’Leary gets it. Double payment is a great imo, delighted with it.
Im married with 2 primary school kids, we both work on good salaries, use crèche for afterschool (we only get current universal 50c off an hour so if that’s the one increased we’ll see a discount hopefully), energy credits too, so we’ve done really well out of this one.
Back of my mind is a worry how will this be paid for?
But the payment itself hasn't been increased for years. And again left untouched this year. We will really only benefit from the electricity and the increase in the tax band. Which is all welcome but the how it will be paid for should be in the back of your mind.
This budget was nothing but a vote buyer from the government. We have a national debt of 240 billion euro. We are the second or third most indebted nation on the planet and almost every public service is failing. Massive problems in health, special needs, education, housing that need to be addressed. People need to be asking many questions of our politicians. Why would anyone in a minimum wage job continue to work when you'd actually be better off not working? So much for Leo promising to help those who get up in the morning.
Which is great but not everyone avails of childcare so a small increase would have been welcomed.
Thank you for this. As nearly 80 and disabled this budget is a deep relief. I have just liberated a small electric radiator from a cupboard. .It never got used last winter as I could not afford it. Better times ahead for so many of us...
Quite a good budget IMHO with something for everybody. Not a lot for middle income earners, but more than I expected. It was prudent of Pascal to put something into the rainy day fund, hopefully SF won't blow it if / when they get in.
I did not expect the goverment too out shin the shinners. This budget left them and PBP with little to criticise, they were lost for words.
It's crazy that some people have to resort to this. I'm glad the budget will allow you more comfort over the winter.
I love a good moan about FF/FG, but this conversation shows what a thankless job it really is. When you simultaneously have some of those on a lower income complaining that the budget doesn't do enough for them and some of those on a higher income complaining it does too much for those on lower incomes it shows the impossible task that is making a budget that everyone is happy with.
My household has come out of this budget better than in any previous ones I can recall with the tax band shift and electricity credit. Though I would've preferred to see more support for the likes of families trying to get by on minimum wage incomes, I understand that it's pretty hard to reduce an already very low tax contribution.
I nearly threw up in my mouth typing this, but I think Paschal has done a great job threading the needle with it. No matter the budget, you'll always have some complaining that it should've done more (but only for people of their specific demographic).
You say I shouldn't worry how it should be paid for and then note how indebted we are, that's why its in my mind, this will have to paid at some stage! Had a look last CB increase was 2016, I think the free primary school books is a great help for those with primary kids and so may be better than a €5 increase. Hopefully they increase that to secondary kids next.
All in all I think its a good budget.
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