Entrate fiscali di 13,5 miliardi di euro raccolti nei primi due mesi dell’anno, in crescita del 12% su 2024 dati

This includes recognition of the last of the Apple tax revenue, and if that’s excluded there’s a surplus of €0.2bn in total.

That would almost cover the cost of one childrens hospital when it’s completed!
Very impressive stuff!

Jesus, reduce the cost of energy and fuel and get rid of the fucking VRT, build some housing and update the rail lines. USE IT FOR FUCK SAKE. Revenue must be swimming like Scrooge McDuck.

Can we spend some of that on fixing our roads please? Im sick of my commute to and from work consisting of trying to dodge the least dangerous potholes on the road and praying for a somewhat evenly surfaced stretch to appear from somewhere. Whats the point in all this tax if our infrastructure is 3rd world standard.

It’s hard earned but lot of it mis-spent by civil service. There is a lack of competency in spending on high social benefit return (reduce hospital trolleys, more guards, more prison spaces to properly accommodate those being jailed) or high return on capital investment (light rail, airport metro). Instead we get shit value spend (HAP, hotels accommodating homeless, IPAS money pit). Those vendors far smarter than Govt. or procurement people in public service

Let me guess we won’t use the surplus for the HSE, Larger prisons so we can stop having citizens walk free with double digit convictions?, maybe infrastructure like expanding the rail network and getting rid of the single rail portions of the rail network? Help the homeless especially families that are homeless? Build government housing even to bring down the overpriced housing market? (And I don’t mean shit flats like the old ballymun flats)

You could even reduce the tax burden on the lower bracket?

Nah that’s all good things for the people of Ireland. How about we do nothing so more and more people get angry at the wrong people and give rise to the far right in Ireland instead? That’s a great idea right?

We are so fucked if we don’t start doing good things for the working people of Ireland. If we don’t use the continuous surplus we have each year now to improve the country then we are certainly gonna end up in the same moron boat as the United States.

This shit sickens me.

I used to live in NI. My tax paid for bin collection, my doctor and prescriptions were all free, my kids had free dental and doctors, the hospital was free when we needed it. What does my tax pay for here in Ireland? What does the average citizen gain from tax paid?

Carbon tax is going to be 16-22 B (capital B)

And what? We won’t spend on anything meaningful anyways so we might as well just not have it.