Nothing I say here will convince you otherwise
But in general, I am in agreement with you!
Its the structure of our tax system, applied to low incomes, that has so many out of the tax net.
Someone on €17000 pays 20% on all of that income but applying personal credits to the tax liability, it results in a zero return.
But someone who earns €100,000
also gets personal tax credits. And applying those credits to the first €17,000 (taxed at 20%) of the high earners income
also returns a zero liability on that first €17,000 of income.
So the proposal here is lets punish the low earner via higher taxes because they dont pay any, even though a higher earner doesn't pay tax on the equivalent level of income (USC aside).
With regard to USC I have proposed that the 1% rate be applied to all earners.
All im looking for is a concrete proposal to support the views held here.
None are forthcoming so far, so what does that say about the view held in favour of the proposal?