Cliff Taylor

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1,379 appearances 10 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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The PRSI income goes into the social insurance fund, so that's not going to help him.

Yeah, he can put up money on fags and he probably will, but the tax strategy papers warn, look,

There's not a lot of money here because people are diminishing returns and all that are applying in there.

He may find another couple of hundred million somewhere else.

I feel I'm paying a lot of tax.

I think anyone who earns enough to be in the higher tax band, the higher USC rate, I think where people particularly notice it, Ciarán,

is when they get a wage increase.

Exactly.

So they find that 52% is gone.

And I think that's kind of the pressure point.

So if you look at the average, are Irish taxpayers paying vastly more than those in other countries?

No.

But the peculiarities of the Irish system mean that middle earners, middle higher earners in particular, pay a bit more

And they also pay more in the marginal rate when they get a wage increase.

And I think that's where people notice it.

Because we had years when there was very little inflation.

And as a result, people were getting not much in the way of wage increases.

Now it's big.

Now, you know, people are, the average wage increase is three to 4%, maybe 4% estimated next year.

So if people get a wage increase to match inflation and the tax system isn't adjusted, they're going to notice.

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