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What would you put a Tax on?

  • 07-11-2008 05:44PM
    #1
    ImDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭


    Title says it all. If you had to pick a few things to tax, be it everyday products/services or luxury items etc., what would they be? Something along the lines of the chewing gum tax?


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  • #2
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,865 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I'd put a tax on threads to stop stupid ones being started.

    I'd be broke!!


  • #3
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Bear Tax

    Fat Person Tax

    Childrens Shoe Tax

    Tax on being a Knacker


  • #4
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    jokingly yer ma

    seriously that eleventy million europs of cocaine that was found


  • #5
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Fat women in tight clothes


  • #6
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    I'd put a tax on being a member of the Green party. See how they like it.


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  • #7
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Quazzie2002 wrote: »
    I'd put a tax on threads to stop stupid ones being started.

    I'd be broke!!

    Ah here, that was gonna be my smarmy opener but I rose above it.


  • #8
    ImDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭ImDave


    bravestarr082 wrote: »
    Fat Person Tax

    PAYE / Pay as you earn => Pay as you eat


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Id have an asshole tax.


  • #10
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    ImDave wrote: »
    PAYE / Pay as you earn => Pay as you eat



    Yeah but then you're dragging Bulimics into it and they dont deserve to be taxed.


  • #11
    ImDave
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭ImDave


    bravestarr082 wrote: »
    Yeah but then you're dragging Bulimics into it and they dont deserve to be taxed.

    Tax credits


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  • #12
    oztots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭oztots


    Tax on snakes.

    Tax on people who speak like a ghetto person. (not the nazi ghettos)


  • #13
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Gambling income. We'd be loaded.


  • #14
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    seamus wrote: »
    Gambling income. We'd be loaded.

    How so? the only winners is the bookies who are taxed?


  • #15
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,818 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    ImDave wrote: »
    PAYE / Pay as you earn => Pay as you eat

    Good idea. They could tax all food products at an additional 20% across the board. They could then give an increase tax credit to workers depending on number of mouths to feed. this credit would more than cover the increase in prices for a reasonable amount of food per person but if you are buying too much i.e. getting fat, it would cost ya


  • #16
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,287 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    legalise all class drugs and be done with it


  • #17
    rotinaj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭rotinaj


    Tax on wearing pj's in public


  • #18
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,818 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    I would tax off license drink much higher and put a conversion tax on items bought in to the country from the north or other european states. And before anyone says that would be illegal, the government do it with cars so?


  • #19
    justamilk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭justamilk


    tax on using the word random/randomer/randomness


  • #20
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,818 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    ntlbell wrote: »
    legalise all class drugs and be done with it

    Yes and the government just picked up €500,000,000 worth of stuff there yesterday. That would reduce government borrowing a bit:D


  • #21
    rotinaj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭rotinaj


    Tax on posting on boards.ie:D


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  • #22
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Tax the dole at 50 cent in the euro..they'd be forced to work instead.


  • #23
    hopalong85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 541 ✭✭✭hopalong85


    Degsy wrote: »
    Tax the dole at 50 cent in the euro..they'd be forced to work instead.

    we couldn't have that! you can't deny decent human beings the privilege of 6 dutchies per day at the taxpayers expense!


  • #24
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    **** tax.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,379 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    €50 on everyone who posts "Yore Ma" in AH, we'd clear the national debt in a matter of days.


  • #26
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Degsy wrote: »
    Tax the dole at 50 cent in the euro..they'd be forced to work instead.


    I can picture it now, some piece of dole scum working the Deli in Spar...


    "D'ya wan patata Salirth on Dah"


  • #27
    starn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭starn


    Helicopter tax

    Fake tan tax

    Abercrombie and Fitch tax

    Loike tax


  • #28
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Stupidity tax. We could get rid of every other tax there is and still be the richest country in the world.


  • #29
    justamilk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭justamilk


    MikeySligo wrote: »
    **** tax.

    ah now here


  • #30
    Damien King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭Damien King


    Black bonnets on red civics


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  • #31
    Hammered hippie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭Hammered hippie


    Complaining about others and willingly interfering in others lifes and habits just for the sake of self glorification
    It is public enemy number one and should be taxed to the ground!


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