Taxation

Budget 2022 must embrace need for new priorities

Wednesday, 7 July 2021

Despite significant progress over the past few months, Ireland remains in a period of enormous uncertainty. Optimistic assumptions point towards a rebound in economic activity and employment from late 2021 or early 2022. Conversely, pessimistic assumptions fear ongoing public health related disruptions and a slow emergence from the Covid-19 crisis. Most likely, the reality lies somewhere in between - but there are limited clues as to where.

Budget Choices 2022

Monday, 5 July 2021

Budget Choices 2022 contains detailed, fully-costed Budgetary packages across more than a dozen policy areas including health, housing, education, welfare, sustainability and more; it also contains a range of costed, revenue-raising proposals.

Budget 2022 - Delivering a Fair Recovery

Monday, 5 July 2021

Despite the immediate uncertainty, Budget 2022 must embrace the need for new approaches to how we as a society prioritise choices. People, well-being, public services and a widespread and fair recovery must come first.

Government Success Depends on Delivery

Monday, 21 June 2021

The Programme for Government contained several commitments which, if fully resourced and implemented, would represent significant steps towards creating a fairer and more just Ireland. As we emerge into a new post-Covid reality, our latest National Social Monitor looks at whether Government is delivering on its commitments in key areas and suggests that, so far, Government’s achievements are not matching its commitments.

National Social Monitor - June 2021

Monday, 21 June 2021

Social Justice Ireland presents Budget Priorities to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Thursday, 3 June 2021

How we plan our finances, and what we choose to prioritise, post-Covid-19, will have profound implications for the future of our economy and society. To this end Social Justice Ireland proposed to the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight that the priorities for Budget 2022 should be adequate social welfare rates and poverty reduction, just taxation, housing for all and tackling unemployment.

Economic Recovery Plan not on scale required to address the challenges we face

Tuesday, 1 June 2021

The Economic Recovery Plan announced today, while welcome, is not of the scale required to address the social, economic and environmental challenges that we now face. Covid-19 has brought extraordinary social and economic costs. Alongside this, the challenges that existed pre-Covid remain and cannot be ignored

Impact of Tax and Benefit Changes on Families, 2017-2021

Monday, 12 April 2021

Over the past few years Social Justice Ireland has developed its ability to track the distributive impact of annual Budgets on households across Irish society. Our analysis tracks changes from year to year (pre and post each Budget) and across a number of recent years. As different policy priorities can be articulated for each Budget, it is useful to bring together the cumulative effect of policy changes on various household types.

Assessing the Adequacy of Ireland’s Total Tax-Take

Wednesday, 7 April 2021

The need for a wider tax base is a lesson painfully learnt by Ireland during the last economic crisis. A disastrous combination of a naïve housing policy, a failed regulatory system, and foolish fiscal policy and economic planning caused a collapse in exchequer revenues. It is only through a strategic and determined effort to reform Ireland’s taxation system that these mistakes can avoided in the future.

Social Justice Matters 2021 - Annex 4 Taxation

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Annex 4 accompanies chapter 4 'Taxation' in Social Justice Matters: 2021 guide to a fairer Irish Society.