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The "live as it happens" Budget comment thread....

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    #302
    Xavi6
    Registered Users Posts: 40,867 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Nothin on the fags


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    #303
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    nothing on smokes


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    #304
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    Excise reduction in Beer & Wine, including VAT, to stem flow of cross-border shoppers

    12c per pint of beer
    60c per bottle of wine


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    #305
    zero19
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭zero19


    I'm 23 and on SW, are my payments remaining the same as is now?


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    #306
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    Fail fail fail fail fail.

    He's ****ed up there with the VAT.

    -0.5 %


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    #307
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    fi314 wrote: »
    If they compensate Welfare families for cuts to Child benefit but yet cuts will affect low paid workers....will that just be a disincentive to work??!

    Things were going great until he came to welfare. It's a huge incentive to stay on the dole. Why work when you might only be coming out with a few euro between lunch/rent/getting to and from work etc.

    ****ing joke.


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    #308
    nibtrix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭nibtrix


    RandolphEsq wrote: »
    12% reduction in pints!!!!

    12c, not 12%! (I wish!)


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    #309
    westtip
    Registered Users Posts: 4,282 ✭✭✭westtip


    All too late UK VAT rates will go up to 17.5% on Jan 1 ours will still be too high


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    #310
    token56
    Registered Users Posts: 2,622 ✭✭✭token56


    VAT only down 0.5%?


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    #311
    thebouldwhacker
    Registered Users Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭thebouldwhacker


    Under 21s without dependents down to €100, under 21-24s new applicants down to €150,

    Is this his 'get young People to leave the country' drive?


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    #312
    fi314
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭fi314


    Sorry Brian but the drink is still cheaper in the north, plus money people save on clothes food ect...This is not going to help


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    #313
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Nice threat to the publicans!


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    #314
    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    where can one buy an electric car in Ireland?


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    #315
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    zero19 wrote: »
    I'm 23 and on SW, are my payments remaining the same as is now?

    Yes, if you are on JSB. If you are on JSA then yes, unless you refuse a job offer, then it'll drop to €150 p.w.


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    #316
    doncarlos
    Registered Users Posts: 2,838 ✭✭✭doncarlos


    westtip wrote: »
    This is great for Fine Gael - FF can be the hatchet men - the other guys can come to power and just accept them and say nothing to do with me guvnor - honest.

    Bigtime. I've voted for FF since I've been able to vote mainly based on having a high rating minister in my locality. I won't be voting for them next time. Can't see them get back in to power for a while


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    #317
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    The VAT reduction is a joke - needed to be 5%.

    The scrappage scheme BS also goes ahead.


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    #318
    ssaye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,650 ✭✭✭ssaye


    LookingFor wrote: »
    Hmm, this seems really silly. A small cut for all in addition would have not gone amiss.

    If it could have allowed for the lowest paid civil servants to avoid the pay cut, even moreso. My sis won't be pleased - she's earning a pittance as a CO (under 24k IIRC), can't believe they're cutting their pay too.

    Also, guys: buy moar alcohol pls.



    I Read it that its going back to just before 2008 levels for all over 24 years old

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1209/budget2010_main.html €8 pw


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    #319
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    fi314 wrote: »
    If they compensate Welfare families for cuts to Child benefit but yet cuts will affect low paid workers....will that just be a disincentive to work??!

    Families eligible for the Family Income Supplement will also get the compensation.


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    #320
    [Deleted User]
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    thebouldwhacker wrote: »
    Is this his 'get young People to leave the country' drive?

    No, it's young people with no commitments do not need more than 100 quid a week.


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    #321
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    tunney wrote: »
    which is?

    150 per child a month.


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    #322
    poindexter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭poindexter


    segaBOY wrote: »
    First €30k @ 5%, €1,500
    Next €4 @ 7.5%, €300

    New Gross €32,200 I think.
    could you help with someone who's on 46k please


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    #323
    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    thebouldwhacker wrote: »
    Is this his 'get young People to leave the country' drive?

    No, it's the 'get them off their arses to work' drive.


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    #324
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Is someone going to do a edited bulletin points hightlight? :)


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    #325
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    mike65 wrote: »
    The VAT reduction is a joke - needed to be 5%.
    Can't go below 15% - EU rules.


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    #326
    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Not enough done with VAT to lower cross border shopping, especially with wage and welfare cuts, water charges, carbon tax, fuel hikes, electric increases etc... been introduced, people will still go north and more of them now.


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    #327
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Lol Lenihan claims FF are friends of the farmer....


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    #328
    frman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭frman


    poindexter wrote: »
    could you help with someone who's on 46k please



    Reduction of EUR3,000 per annum


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    #329
    scudzilla
    Registered Users Posts: 11,934 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    ei.sdraob wrote: »
    where can one buy an electric car in Ireland?

    Smyths


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    #330
    LookingFor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭LookingFor


    ssaye wrote: »
    I Read it that its going back to just before 2008 levels for all over 24 years old

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1209/budget2010_main.html €8 pw


    Ah, I missed that, thanks.

    So the 4% leak was correct. I think they could have gone a bit further though.


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    #331
    Cannibal Ox
    Registered Users Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭Cannibal Ox


    Clearly thinks we can drink our way out of this.

    VAT should have gone down more.

    Car scrappage scheme = good.

    56 million to FAS is a waste.

    John Gormley looks monumentally bored.


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