You are not a Shinner but I don't understand how you are still buying the narrative that there is fundamental unfairness and that we don't live in a "safe and stable society."
Ireland is a very good place to live (yes there are hard cases but we are talking in general here). The social safety net is a hell of a lot better than it is in somewhere like the United States and it is a credit to a relatively young country with no legacy of generational or colonial wealth. Socially-democratic Ireland is not the appropriate proving ground for a statutory wealth tax when anyone with a basic knowledge of the tax system already knows that wealth and transactions are plenty taxed. Yes there are pinch points such as property in the cities, but a wealth tax will do nothing to solve that if the problem is as intractable as you say it is.
You are looking at headline rates of tax like the marginal income tax rate and comparing this to what looks like lower CGT, DIRT etc. Your analysis stops there and the conclusion is that it ain't right. But you are looking at things before social transfers take effect.
Go on citizensinformation.ie. See the range of tax credits and benefits available to people. Take this recent AAM post that I commented on:
Age: 33 Spouse’s/Partner's age: 33 Annual gross income from employment or profession: Husband is currently on 41K, proposed new salary €52,383 Annual gross income of spouse: In receipt of Carers Allowance, €217.50 per week - €11,310 P/A Monthly take-home pay: Husband - €3133.95, my carers...
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Here is a married couple earning €63k per annum through their labour.
They pay €4,420 in taxes.
That's a tax rate on their labour of 7%.
Outside of that calculation the family also receives DCA of €3,714 per annum.
Net that against the taxes and their tax rate is now down to 1%.
If you then add Carer's respite grant which has gone up in the recent budget into the equation you are now into a negative tax rate.
How is wealth being concentrated in the hands of older people? That's a natural function of time. Older people have accumulated more than younger. It was always thus. It's a lifetime of earning mainly.
Even if you do bring in wealth tax, that dynamic of the older generation having more than the younger will not change. This picture you present of older folk hoarding wealth is laughable.
Open your eyes - wealth transfers are going on all over the place but they are private financial matters that nobody shouts from the rooftops. Parents giving sites to children. The bank of mum and dad stepping in to help children with deposits. Even those parents with no material assets to give are giving of their time to help mind grandkids and save their children childcare costs. In time, a person of your means will also do the same for your kids. Those penny-pinching older people that are hoarding wealth? They will depart their mortal coil in time - the wealth goes back into the system and gets spent and taxed eventually.
The system looks very fair to me. It's a great country.