A Merry Christmas for plutocrats

Tom McDonnell08/12/2010

Tom McDonnell: TASC will be releasing a full budget response tomorrow. In the meantime feast your eyes on some good news for all of you single, non-PAYE workers on €200,000 or more. I have followed the Government’s practice of assuming a 6% pension contribution. You can do the calculations yourself using the deloitte tax calculator. See table below the fold, and click to enlarge.

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Dr Tom McDonnell

McDonnell, Tom

Tom McDonnell is senior economist at the NERI and is responsible for among other things, NERI's analysis of the Republic of Ireland economy including risks, trends and forecasts. He specialises in economic growth theory, the economics of innovation, the Irish and European economies, and fiscal policy. He previously worked as an economist at TASC and before that was a lecturer in economics at NUI Galway and at DCU. He has also taught at Maynooth University.

Tom obtained his PhD in economics from NUI Galway.


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