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Re: Irish bintifada

Oct 16, 2003, 16:29

" Which means your taxes are lower than the UK's"

That is completely wrong. I moved here for a higher paid job and was worse off. I had to ask for a significant pay rise within months of being here.

The cost of living in Dublin is the highest in Europe.

VAT is higher than in the UK.

On top of the high income tax we have PRSI, which is the same sort of thing as NI. On top of that we have VHI, which is a semi-private medical scheme to pay for health care.

We pay for every trip to the doctors or dentist.

What people forget is that Ireland is a big place with hardly any people in it. There are more people in the Birmingham conurbation than live in Ireland! It all has to be payed for somehow. If you want an infrastructure then it needs to be paid for and when an economy is booming like Dublin's is it's better to get it through taxes rather than state borrowing.

Company taxation. Yes, it's scandalously low ... 10% !!!!! but without that Ireland would still be a third world country (some of it still is).

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