TAX breaks for 4,000
people who earned over €100,000 last year yet paid
no tax is a "kick in the teeth" to the thousands who
have lost their jobs, an Inishowen councillor has
said.
Cllr Pádraig MacLochlainn claimed the figures showed
that the Government was slow to close tax loopholes
for the rich but quick to cut social welfare
payments and public services. He said: “The fact
that the high earners in our society can escape
paying any tax on their incomes while thousands are
being made redundant makes a mockery of this
Government’s economic policies. |
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Cllr Pádraig
MacLochlainn claimed the figures showed that the
Government was slow to close tax loopholes for the
rich but quick to cut social welfare payments and
public services. He said: “The fact that the high
earners in our society can escape paying any tax on
their incomes while thousands are being made
redundant makes a mockery of this Government’s
economic policies.
“While the Government has been slow to close tax
loopholes that benefit the well off in society, it
wasted no time cutting social welfare payments and
public services which are depended upon mostly by
those on low and middle incomes."
The Buncrana-based deputy mayor of |
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Cllr Pádraig MacLochlainn |
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the county added:
“These figures show that this Government has one
rule for the rich and another for the least well off
in society". |
