Commission on Taxation and Welfare report being heavily leaked

[Purple]

Huge €6.3bn exchequer surplus gives Government more than expected for Budget

Ministers Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath are going into their Budget announcement this month with dramatically more money to spend than they expected.

www.independent.ie

the state has 6.3 billion euro surplus this year, yet the government and this "commission on welfare and taxation" still playing down any tax cuts or raising of bands in order to protect workers from inflation.

Across the board pay rises which chase inflation make thing worse for people on low and medium incomes (I presume that's who you mean when you use the term "workers" as it causes more inflation.

They have already committed to large welfare, public sector spending and other current spending increases.

Where does it say that in their report?

Now when we find out that they have a huge surplus even after prolific borrowing and spending during covid

But we haven't repaid the money we borrowed so what do you mean by "even after prolific borrowing"? We borrowed the money and we still owe it. We owe a bit over a quarter of a trillion Euro. That should be a cause for concern. In fact it should temper demands for increased in spending and welfare and tax cuts

they are still dreaming up new taxes for hard pressed workers

Many workers are on very high incomes. I don't think working people on three or four hundred thousand a year are suffering too badly.

and orchestrating with the media this talking down of any relief for middle income workers.

Ah, okay, so we are talking about middle income earners. What do you regard as middle income? What other factors are you taking into account? Is a middle income earner who owns their home outright and has no children in the same bracket as a middle income earner with a mortgage or rent to pay and a couple of kids? "Targeted", that's the important phrase in all of this. There are plenty of middle income earners who are doing just fine. There are plenty of higher income earners who are struggling.

All this green agenda stuff is just a new smokescreen in order for them to dream up new taxes

Wow, so all the so-called scientists and so-called experts are part of a grand conspiracy to hike taxes... Are the floods and fire real or are they fake too?

 

[joe sod]

Something to enrage every worker in the country: Divisive taxation report could be dead on arrival

The report of the Government-appointed Commission on Taxation and Welfare contains commendable measures to tackle a raft of high costs for the State that are coming at us like a train.

www.independent.ie

according to this article (behind paywall) the report is already dead in the water due to its divisive nature and its recommendations to raise a raft of taxes directly hitting middle income workers that drive to work every day.
More taxes on fuel. taxes on electricity, taxes on roads, taxes on processed foods etc etc etc
And they come up with this just at the time when the country is grappling with huge inflationary pressures and their recommendations would just throw a load of petrol on that inflation

Looks like all of it will be ignored by government now anyway. It begs the question how were such a group appointed in the first place when the government is just going to ignore it anyway and the "expertise" of some of the group look a bit dubious. Its like they were living in their own echo chamber sublimely insulated from the real world