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"SINGLE PEOPLE are subsidising the lives of married couples because of anomalies in the tax system" ...TD Leo Varadkar told the Dáil yesterday.
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There would be people in this House for example who have the same income as me who have stay-at-home wives who don’t work, yet they pay less tax than I do because their wife doesn’t work...
Being single, I pay a lot of tax. I do not wish to be poor-mouthing but must state I probably pay 40 per cent of my income in tax,” he said. Like many single people in the State, he said, he paid his mortgage and utility bills on his own.
He said it was ironic that if he was to marry someone earning less than €25,000, he would be able to share the costs of living and reduce his tax bill by €7,000...
So essentially you have single people effectively subsidising the lifestyles of people who happen to be married.”
Have to admit, I never thought about it like that. Is it discrimination? Any thoughts?
"SINGLE PEOPLE are subsidising the lives of married couples because of anomalies in the tax system" ...TD Leo Varadkar told the Dáil yesterday.
...
There would be people in this House for example who have the same income as me who have stay-at-home wives who don’t work, yet they pay less tax than I do because their wife doesn’t work...
Being single, I pay a lot of tax. I do not wish to be poor-mouthing but must state I probably pay 40 per cent of my income in tax,” he said. Like many single people in the State, he said, he paid his mortgage and utility bills on his own.
He said it was ironic that if he was to marry someone earning less than €25,000, he would be able to share the costs of living and reduce his tax bill by €7,000...
So essentially you have single people effectively subsidising the lifestyles of people who happen to be married.”
Have to admit, I never thought about it like that. Is it discrimination? Any thoughts?