Ireland winning the equality battle through benign tax and benefit regime…

Guess what? Ireland’s levels of income inequality increased as the wealthy lost their footing paid a higher proportion in tax, whilst the country’s relatively generous welfare provision suffered less badly. Dan O’Brien with the detail: There were specific reasons why many previously high earners were hit disproportionately hard by the slump. As lots of small and medium-sized companies went to the wall, the numbers working for themselves fell by even more than the numbers of waged employees. The self-employed who …

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