The Government’s Budget 2023 widened the rich/poor gap by €199 next year. Despite the welcome temporary measures to address the cost of living and energy crisis, in the long run this Budget will be…
While much focus has been placed on tax reductions in Budget 2023, the reality is that Ireland is a low-tax economy. International competitiveness is often cited as a rationale for retaining this low…
The experience of the last decade has highlighted the centrality of taxation in budget deliberations and to policy development. Taxation plays a key role in shaping Irish society through funding…
Budget 2023 has been flagged by the Taoiseach as a ’cost of living budget’ and Social Justice Ireland believes that it is important that the Budget should strategically approach taxation…
Social Justice Ireland’s income model tracks the distributive impact of annual budgets on households across Irish society. On this page we consider the cumulative impact of changes to…
In October 2020, the Irish Government published its first paper on the introduction of a Wellbeing Framework and, since then, has been working on what should be included to measure how well Ireland…
Ireland is a low tax country with ever-increasing demands on resources. We saw during the pandemic the impact of under-investment in housing, healthcare, education, childcare, and recreational…
Ireland and the wider world is moving steadily towards the deadline of 2030 by which time we are supposed to have delivered on the Climate Strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals. Delivering…
The coming decade will be one of transformation as we try to meet our climate goals. This edition of National Social Monitor ‘Just Transition’ sets out some specific policies that Social Justice…
A recent article by Paolo Mauro, Deputy Director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, looks at putting moral perspectives into public finances. Mauro argues that policy decisions on taxation and…
