No more income tax rises, Lenihan pledges

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Вранье конечно, потому что на местных выборах FF грядет кирдык, но таки приятно почитать

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...597.html?r=RSS

By Fionnan Sheahan


Tuesday May 26 2009

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan yesterday reiterated his pledge not to increase income taxes any further.

But Mr Lenihan admitted the Government will examine the introduction of a new property tax.

As outlined in the emergency Budget, he said the next budget will focus on spending cuts, rather than taxation. "The limits of income tax increase have been reached," he said.

"There's a limit to the extent we can increase tax to solve our economic problems. I wasn't anxious to increase tax this year, but when I saw the revenue base fall so dramatically, I was obliged to increase the income tax," he said on Newstalk's 'Lunchtime with Eamon Keane'.

The minister said if he had not increased income taxes, nobody would have believed the Government was capable.

"But there's a very definite limit to it because taxes on income and labour are taxes on employment. We don't want to increase them indefinitely. That means I think the focus in the next budget has to be on the expenditure side rather than the taxation side," Mr Lenihan said.

"We are looking at a carbon tax, we're looking at a number of other initiatives, certainly household taxation is under consideration."

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Какая разница? Что carbon tax, что income tax? Деньги не пахнут ;(