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The Community Platform*, a network of 30 national community organisations today called on those involved in negotiating the new programme for government to pursue an alternative vision for Ireland - an Ireland where policies and actions are based on the values of social solidarity, justice, equality and sustainability.
7th December 2010
In a statement issued this evening, the Community Platform* argues that the Budget failed to provide any hope for families on low and middle income who were disproportionately penalised in the Budget measures.
According to Anne Costello, spokesperson for the Community Platform ' Cutting social welfare, the minimum wage and child benefit will not only have a devastating impact on the most vulnerable it will also have a damaging impact on consumer spending, resulting in even more job losses and a further shrinking of the economy'.
29th November 2010
Research commissioned by the Community Platform reveals overwhelming public support for a Wealth Tax. As part of the 4Steps2 Recovery Progressive Tax Campaign, the Community Platform included a question on OmniPoll, Ipsos MRBI's telephone Omnibus to measure support for the introduction of a wealth tax. A nationally representative sample of just over 1,000 adults aged 15+ were asked whether they would agree or disagree that the Government should introduce a wealth tax on individuals who have net assets valued at more than one million euro and who have an annual income of more than €100,000.
A total of 82% of the respondents agreed that the Government should introduce this tax. Interestingly, high levels of support were reflected across all age groups, regions and social classes.
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The Community Platform*, a network of 30 national community organisations today called on those involved in negotiating the new programme for government to pursue an alternative vision for Ireland - an Ireland where policies and actions are based on the values of social solidarity, justice, equality and sustainability.
Updates From Members
Debt and Development Coalition recently launched a new book 'Driving the Getaway Car? Ireland, Tax and Development', written on behalf of its member organisations by Dr Sheila Killian of the University of Limerick.
'Driving the Getaway Car?' explains how impoverished countries lose billions of euro through weak domestic tax collection capacities and through unjust international tax structures. Transfer pricing abuse is highlighted as a particular area of concern. This is when subsidiaries of the same multi-national company artificially set the prices of goods and services in order to minimise their tax bills, often through the use of secrecy jurisdictions, popularly known as tax havens. This illegal practice is very difficult to monitor and costs impoverished countries billions in lost tax revenue.