Pensions - KPMG calls for significant increases to SFT and TFLS

Bear in mind deductions at the margin for higher-paid public servants are already 62%.

I assume hitting the SFT pushes that marginal rate above 70% over a lifetime.

I can see why someone would think it not worth the additional responsibility.

Grateful for anyone to correct my sums here.
 
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You're right, its a total red herring. I don't see any mass emigration of hospital consultants, or any public servants on 200k salaries.

Facts ‘don’t support narrative’ of Irish doctors collectively emigrating to Australia, says Minister

More than 80% of medical interns from 2015-2018 are now back working in Ireland, says HSE
www.irishtimes.com


Its the lower paid public servants, nurses, teachers, who are legging it overseas, because they can't afford housing.
The Irish hospital consultants are the best paid consultants in the world.

Irish consultants paid €41,000 more than their counterparts in the UK

Irish hospital consultants are better paid than their colleagues in the UK, earning an average salary of €170,000 for treatment of public patients.
www.independent.ie

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More than 1,000 Consultants have signed the new Public-Only Sláintecare Contract since it was launched in March, Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly announced in November. The Department of Health said this meant that more than one in every four consultants working across our health service are...
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And they are not clamouring for this tax relief to be extended. In the UK , they were caught making up statistics, about NHS consultants, in order to bring in a scheme designed to help very rich people, get even richer .

Doubts grow over number of NHS doctors helped by pension giveaway

New figures reveal only 100 hospital doctors left NHS in 2022 due to voluntary early retirement, despite claims by Jeremy Hunt
www.theguardian.com
 
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Steven Barrett said:
Except you won't be working, you'll be retired...on an index linked pension. Comparing it to the average working wage is not a relevant comparison.
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OK, I'll rephrase. My pension will be less than half the average working wage and fully integrated into the state pension.
If you are so adamant that improved pension arrangements for highly paid workers are beneficial, why not have the same zeal for those on average or lower wages.
My point is that highly skilled workers like consultants, will receive a very high wage. From that wage they can maximise the very generous tax relief for pensions. After that, if they are reasonably prudent, they can invest excess capital, from their post tax wages, in equities, or property, or whatever and create other income streams. They don't need even more help from the average working person, on average working wages.
 
if only it wasnt the tax take from people like them that funded everything else....
 
Fortune said:
There is no tax take from government employees, it's just a reduction in expenditure
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That's quite the arithmetic gymnastics, one way of looking at but if that was the case you'd expect they would report it in that way
 
From the FT (paywalled):

Very relevant to the Irish debate if the UK will continue to basically have no SFT.
 
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