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What will the next tax be.

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    #32
    JMNolan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭JMNolan


    Cycling, definitely a matter of time


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    #33
    Kimbot
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 18,433 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kimbot


    Tax people that wear Gym gear but dont know what the inside of a gym looks like or even what exercise is....


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    #34
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,703 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Income tax regardless of income.


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    #35
    BattleCorp
    Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Pat Mustard wrote: »
    Doesn't piss me off as much as the tv licence. Not a tax but close enough.

    Can of worms time here but bad and all as RTE is, there is some semblance of a service for the money. Very poor value for money, but still some sort of service.


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    #36
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    Can of worms time here but bad and all as RTE is, there is some semblance of a service for the money. Very poor value for money, but still some sort of service.

    I agree but I don't use their service, at all.


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    #37
    scamalert
    Registered Users Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭scamalert


    Kimbot wrote: »
    Hell no, they can feck off and leave vaping alone. They already get their VAT from it and thats enough.
    well they did introduce law that only 10mill of liquid are allowed to sell, so guessing its not the end, seeing more people vaping, it will eventually come to tax nicotine itself maybe to even it out with cig prices.

    sugar tax total joke, coke vent from 2l, 1,75, now its 1.5l bottle for 2.xxe in corner store

    then theres car insurance industry which seems to take whatever number they want, while not government controlled, but again ripping new a$$ every year with increases

    in general id say someone coming to Ireland now has to be totally stupid as entire economy is high as a kite, and numbers keep going up across everything.


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    #38
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Kimbot wrote: »
    Tax people that wear Gym gear but dont know what the inside of a gym looks like or even what exercise is....

    But it makes me look sexy


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    #39
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Vaping's next. The USC2, USC Harder.


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    #40
    Caliden
    Registered Users Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Fully electric cars will get some sort of tax.

    I think maybe some sort of tax on private vehicles based on mileage done per year (in addition to motor tax/fuel tax). They will base their figures off the odometer readings taken when the car has an NCT done. New cars (< 5 years old) will still need a yearly reading taken.

    I think the tax relief in relation to your pension will be reduced and they will take a bigger cut when you go to retire.


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    #41
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    OSI wrote: »
    Why? It will either raise more revenue required to run the services it produces an extra dependence on, or it will encourage better choices that will reduce dependence on those same resources. It's a win/win in my book.

    You assume that it will work.

    It's debateable whether it will have a useful outcome.
    http://www.thejournal.ie/sugar-soft-drinks-tax-does-it-work-health-benefits-facts-2918363-Oct2017/
    http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43659124

    In the meantime, we have yet another tax to enjoy. Thanks, Nanny State.


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    #42
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    a tax on thoughts.. a bit like the Orwellian Thought-crime concept.


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    #43
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    But it makes me look sexy

    There should be a tax on making you look sexy! :pac:


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    #44
    JMNolan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭JMNolan


    donegaLroad wrote: »
    a tax on thoughts.. a bit like the Orwellian Thought-crime concept.

    Possibly this one will be implemented as it means our politicians won't be liable due to lack of thoughts.


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    #45
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Manufactures should be taxed for over packaging everything.
    Coffee Shops should be taxed if they are using single use cups.


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    #46
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    But it makes me look sexy

    We're bringing sexy-tax (yeah),
    You're gonna pay for those yoga cacks.


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    #47
    erica74
    Registered Users Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭erica74


    If they're planning on a plastic tax, they should at least introduce a plastic bottle recycling system in Ireland. You see these in loads of European countries, recycling machines around the place. The machine has a bar code scanner and through that it can analyse the size of bottle and it calculates your refund based on the size of the bottle. The refund is a fraction of the price of the bottle.
    I think this would be really popular in Ireland. Anyone who has ever attended a festival here will have seen young children going around collecting plastic beer cups to get prizes from a beer tent. I can see plastic bottle recycling facilities in Ireland being very successful.


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    #48
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    I'm shocked nobody has thought of a sickness tax? You're sick and can't work? Off you go an pay tax, because when you're sick you can't work and pay tax, so pay a tax that the state gets something for the tax they lose out when you're out sick.


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    #49
    ELM327
    Registered Users Posts: 21,367 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    LirW wrote: »
    I'm shocked nobody has thought of a sickness tax? You're sick and can't work? Off you go an pay tax, because when you're sick you can't work and pay tax, so pay a tax that the state gets something for the tax they lose out when you're out sick.
    But for those that get sick pay they pay income tax in it


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    tmh106
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭tmh106


    Checkmate19 wrote: »
    <snip> The min alcohol pricing coming. <snip>.

    Nitpicking a little, but the minimum alcohol pricing will not be a tax, as far as I am aware - I believe the retailer will get to keep all of any resulting price increases.


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    #51
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,329 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    Pat Mustard wrote:
    I agree but I don't use their service, at all.


    Your taxes go towards provision of the fire brigade services, do you burn things to use that?


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    #52
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    jimmycrackcorm wrote:
    Your taxes go towards provision of the fire brigade services, do you burn things to use that?


    The benefit of the fire service is obvious. Can't see the benefit of Tubridy or Miarim can you?


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    #53
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    ELM327 wrote: »
    But for those that get sick pay they pay income tax in it

    Simples, just tax it seperately because they're unproductive. Also double GP visit costs so the peasantry shows up to work.


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    #54
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,212 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Tax on air quality where you live. The better the air and less polution, the more you pay. Could see that getting proposed by some gob****e.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



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    #55
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    Tax on air quality where you live. The better the air and less polution, the more you pay. Could see that getting proposed by some gob****e.

    Believe me a day after that the whole country would be a bonfire.


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    #56
    meep
    Registered Users Posts: 1,290 ✭✭✭meep


    Pat Mustard wrote: »
    I would like to see a Muppet Tax. A tax on all of the complete idiots out there.

    The tax should be voluntary, so that only idiots pay it.

    It should be disguised as a product that you don't need and it should be superficially attractive but essentially useless.

    I am thinking along the lines of the lottery but that is already there so it has to be something new.

    Any ideas?

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    #57
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    Tax on air quality where you live. The better the air and less polution, the more you pay. Could see that getting proposed by some gob****e.

    It's already here and called carbon tax.


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    #58
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Tax traveller bashing threads


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    #59
    Billgirlylegs
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭Billgirlylegs


    donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »
    Property tax to be expanded to new builds for sure anyway. Plug that hole they see coming. Some kind of motor tax reform increase is definitely on the way too.

    :)


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    #60
    CeilingFly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,378 ✭✭✭CeilingFly


    Checkmate19 wrote: »
    The sugar tax is in now. The min alcohol pricing coming.
    Minimum alcohol pricing is not a tax - it just stops retails stores selling at ridiculous low prices to get people in to buy other stuff.

    Unfortunately it contributes substantially to the excessive drinking culture we have here.

    It won't lead to any price increase in pubs or restaurants, but the day of below cost selling of slabs of beer and 1l bottles of cheap vodka are gone.


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    #61
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,851 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Instead of a new tax, just cut wasteful expenditure.

    Cap children’s allowance.


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