Economic Incentives

Figures from the World Inequality Database show that the top one percent share of pre-tax fiscal income rose from around six per cent the mi...

The question of why income inequality has fallen in Ireland should get more traction in the discussion of social outcomes in Ireland.  If ri...

Last year we queried how it was that the OECD placed Ireland in the “low tax” group for it measure of the net personal income tax rate (inc...

The IDA summary of their 2018 results includes the following: IDA Ireland’s clients are also significant employers; with average salar...

A few weeks ago the OECD published the 2018 update of their Taxing Wages publication.  There is plenty in the report worth chewing over but...

On last Monday’s Claire Byrne Live , commentator Eamonn Dunphy made the following comment: “As we do in Ireland, the French pay a high ...

A recent study from the Nevin Economic Research Institute looked at the combined effective rate of direct and indirect taxes on Irish h...

Much of the recent emphasis has been on the corporate income tax, but the Eurostat Tax Statistics Annual provides insight on all taxes.  He...

Here is a summary table of changes to net income at different gross annual incomes since 2008.  There is two figures for 2009.  The first co...

The Statistical Report of the Revenue Commissioners has a chapter on Income Distribution Statistics .  Within that Table IDS15 gives some de...

The tax system and its nuances is a frequent topic in the public discourse.  A fertile area for such discussions are the headline, marginal ...