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Budget April 2009 as it happens.

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    #302
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Guys, stay on topic here please.

    Other places to discuss college fees etc.


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    #303
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    TunnelWeb wrote: »
    The dole should be taxed and cut!! Taxing ppl thru the teeth who are actually out working to pay for ppl who sit at home is unfair.:mad:

    I'm sure people have all ready relied to this but I just read it and my God you seriously need to take of the blinkers and live in the real world for a minute. Most people who have signed on the dole in the past year have done so due to job loss. It;s not like the entire country came together and said, hang on lets all take it easy and accept free money.

    While I agree that our social welfare system ahs been abused and will continue to tha vast majority of people currently on the dole are there through no choice of their own.

    I can understand calls for those who have been on the dole for years and the entire families who have been signign on for years, (I can name dozens) to have theirs cut significantly but for you to say that people signing on now should be hit is just unacceptable. Grow up and live in the real world.


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    #304
    DSB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    They've definitely bottled it. All forms of social welfare needed cutting in line with the loss of income workers have suffered due to the recession itself and income levies.


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    #305
    Elbi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭Elbi


    ok cigaretts - is it 25 cents or 25%

    Half my office say percent the other half say cent


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    #306
    Drumpot
    Registered Users Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    djk1000 wrote: »
    Was there anything anywhere close to an admission of some responsibility for the current mess?

    Might make us feel better but not the time or place to admit your failings when the rest of the world is watching . . .

    Foreign investors wouldnt touch us with an iron bar if they thought we voted in clowns for 10 consecutive years!!


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    #307
    Villain
    Registered Users Posts: 15,944 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    pipsqueak wrote: »
    Just heard that 20 lads from strasbourg in dark suits have just boarded a flight and are on their way over now. IMF or something was written on their suitcases.

    Yep they are getting closer, does anyone think this budget went far enough?


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    #308
    mathie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,102 ✭✭✭mathie


    djk1000 wrote: »
    Was there anything anywhere close to an admission of some responsibility for the current mess?

    Ha! Good one!


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    #309
    useful_contacts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭useful_contacts


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    No, he again blamed over-seas economies for everything.

    dont forget the "the no vote in lisbon didnt help" dig :rolleyes:


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    #310
    Rayne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭Rayne


    Elbi wrote: »
    ok cigaretts - is it 25 cents or 25%

    Half my office say percent the other half say cent


    25 CENTS clarified on RTÉ 1


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    #311
    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Petrol will be going up now :rolleyes:


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    #312
    Dob74
    Registered Users Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭Dob74


    Looks like the taxpayer will be bailing out the Banks and the developers:mad:

    WTF


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    #313
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,500 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Tobacco Excise

    The Excise Duty on a packet of 20 cigarettes will be increased by 25 cent (including VAT) with a pro-rata increase on other tobacco products, with effect from midnight on 7 April 2009.

    DIRECT FROM THE BUDGET

    http://www.budget.gov.ie/2009SupApril09/SummaryofSupplementaryBudgetMeasuresPolicyChanges.html


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    #314
    steps_3314
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭steps_3314


    kwyjibot wrote: »
    My reading of this is that if I want to buy a house from you, I can give you my old one, and you don't pay stamp duty on it until you go to sell it to someone else.


    Ah.

    Thanks for that


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    #315
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    The budget didn't seem to go far enough, though perhaps it's a bit early to tell. What really disappoints me is how, like previous budgets since the boom collapsed, it's completely unimaginative. The Central Bank as regulator is a good start, but beyond that I can't see anything but attempts easy answers.

    (Richard Bruton just said what I typed. Weird. Does this mean I'm a FGer? *shudder*)

    Resi12 wrote: »
    Oh yes because that's the thing we need now us young people having to pay to get a good job and career.
    I would have to get start off life with a debt of over 6 grand in a recession with no job's to pay it back.

    For them to bring in fee's would be them killing themselves.

    +1

    If fees are brought in, what's to stop students from going to college abroad, where they've a better chance of getting a job after graduating? Considering they government are staking recovery on the line that "we are a still a good country to invest in, we have a good educated workforce, smart economy etc. etc.". That'll be sorely damaged by fees, which I've no doubt will cut college numbers here.


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    #316
    Baldie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭Baldie


    The income levy is 2% up to 75k and 4% after that and so and so forth....


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    #317
    PCros
    Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭PCros


    hellboy99 wrote: »
    Petrol will be going up now :rolleyes:

    No just diesel.


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    #318
    pipsqueak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 618 ✭✭✭pipsqueak


    Villain wrote: »
    Yep they are getting closer, does anyone think this budget went far enough?

    ill have 50 yo yos with paddy power that the imf will be in by july!!

    Budget didnt cut deep enough, what happened to the 800 quangos? why was fas budget not slashed? why coillte not sold off?
    too soft far too soft
    country f****d!


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    #319
    djk1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭djk1000


    Elbi wrote: »
    ok cigaretts - is it 25 cents or 25%

    Half my office say percent the other half say cent

    RTE is saying 25 cents


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    #320
    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    PCros wrote: »
    No just diesel.
    Yeah, but what transports the petrol to the filling stations, diesel filled trucks.


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    #321
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,322 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    What the hell is the point of that?


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    #322
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Lol talking about artists. Pleeeeeeease mention the U2 tax dodger.


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    #323
    Baldie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭Baldie


    hellboy99 wrote: »
    Petrol will be going up now :rolleyes:

    No it's not. Diesel is. +5c


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    #324
    kilns
    Registered Users Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭kilns


    They should have been much braver on spending. Typical political budget, trying to save their own butts. He pointed out that public jobs cost €30bn per year and social welfare is a similar figure.

    He should have hit social welfare, not leaving it alone. I am sorry but the dole should be reduced end of!


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    #325
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Nice to see how they ramped up the poxy income levy, there goes 4%.
    It'll probably have another increase in next budget.

    Cigs up 25c or 25% increase on the excise/duty. Well I will not buy Irish cigs any longer, time to take advantage of our common EU market.

    No real change to SW payments or minimum wage.

    No accountability or ownership by the government for the mess they created whilst they still look after the vested interest groups of
    bankers, builders and publicans.

    Time for the IMF me thinks.


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    #326
    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Lol talking about artists. Pleeeeeeease mention the U2 tax dodger.

    But can you put a price on their cultural contribution to the country?


    *vomits*


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    #327
    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Baldie wrote: »
    No it's not. Diesel is. +5c
    Yeah, but what transports the petrol to the filling stations, diesel filled trucks.


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    #328
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,500 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Baldie wrote: »
    No it's not. Diesel is. +5c

    Which will increase transportation costs.


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    #329
    ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,109 ✭✭✭ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV


    nvm read wrong


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    #330
    Peyton Manning
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭Peyton Manning


    I really think they missed an opportunity by not taxing Pringles as crisps instead of biscuits.


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    #331
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,500 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV wrote: »
    under 20 or under 29 ? what does it mean?

    Under 21's job seekers allowance was cut 50%.


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