@ISIDEWITHQuestionseconomyStarted 11yrs agoActive 10hrs ago

Should the government raise taxes on the rich?

Should Ireland raise taxes on the rich?

Australia currently has a progressive tax system whereby high income earners pay a higher percentage of tax than low income tax. A more progressive income tax system has been proposed as a tool towards reducing wealth inequality.

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Response rates from 227 Longford-Westmeath voters.

65%
Yes
35%
No
62%
Yes
25%
No
3%
Lower the income tax rate and remove all existing tax loopholes for large corporations
5%
No, but lower taxes for the poor
0%
Yes, and raise taxes on all income brackets
3%
Reform to a flat tax
3%
No, keep the current tax structure

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 @9HD2Q4Vanswered…12mos12MO

Absolutely not.I believe in a more simplified tax system and flat income tax . Income Tax 20% ,Corporate 6.5% ,VAT and sales will stay the same. Inheritance,Capital Gains,Carbon and property tax should be removed

 @9ZCWBTSanswered…2wks2W

Define ‘rich’. If it’s a middle/lower class person who is working two jobs and getting over-taxed because of this then no, if it’s a upper-class person who can survive with being taxed more then yes.

 @97TK387answered…2yrs2Y

The government should make a clear distinction between those that are cash rich and asset rich. A farmer with hundreds and thousands of euro worth of land is asset rich but may not have cash liquidity and should not be taxed at a higher rate. However a large corporation owner who is both asset and cash rich should be taxed at a higher rate as they can afford to pay it.

 @9NN29JZanswered…6mos6MO

More tax for businesses. Those who are holding property should be taxed more. More tax on mass rental individuals.

 @9K486Y8answered…9mos9MO

Taxes should be fairly redeemed, if the earner cannot live comfortably because their money has gone on tax, the tax should be lowered, likewise if a person is a very high earner and a higher rate of tax would not effect their comfort of living then the higher tax should be paid. What I have stated is the same structure that we already have but it needs to be fine tuned to find a better balance I believe.

 @97YBF9Banswered…2yrs2Y

No, but increase corporate tax

 @9ZM2S5Zanswered…7 days7D

If you’re paying high tax then healthcare, education and other services have to be free. Can’t pay high tax while also having to pay all those expensive services

 @9ZKRRRLanswered…1wk1W

Yes, increase taxes for rich. It is much more important to remove loopholes that large cooperations use and loopholes multimillionaires and billionaires use.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

War crime tourists pay $3,000 to see Ukraine’s horror

War Tours, pays a wage to its tour guides – who are refugees themselves – and regularly donates funds to the war effort. But some of his competitors appear to be raking in the cash: one week-long “war tour” package reportedly offered to tourists comes with a £3,000 price tag. Clients are from the US, Britain or “small European countries”, he says, and interest in tours has risen this summer. “I think they deserve to see what’s happening here because their governments support Ukraine, and they pay for that with their taxes,” he says, adding “people have a right to know how their money is spent.” It would seem that the Ukrainian government is also keen to attract visitors. In March, the country announced a campaign to attract tourists, saying it had the infrastructure and hotels to welcome foreign travellers, albeit when the war was over. “Any money that people will spend in Ukraine will help the economy to recover,” said tourism boss Mariana Oleskiv. More than 70,000 people visited the disaster-ravaged area in 2021, with numbers peaking at almost 125,000 in 2019, three years before the war broke out.“People are interested in seeing Bucha because it’s evidence of Russian aggression in their own eyes, rather than just through the media,” he explains. But “they also wanted to see destroyed Russian vehicles, and the different kinds of drones used by both sides, as well as the famous exhibitions in Kyiv”.

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