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Dirty Dozen Tweaks-Budget

marp · 2010-12-10 08:27:05

Does anybody know anything about this please:confused: "People with medical cards did not have to pay the income levy or the health levy up to now. But the merging of these two levies into the universal social contribution (USC) will mean that people with a medical card, whose income is greater than €4,000, will pay the…

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10-12-2010 9:27am

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marp

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Does anybody know anything about this please
"People with medical cards did not have to pay the income levy or the health levy up to now.
But the merging of these two levies into the universal social contribution (USC) will mean that people with a medical card, whose income is greater than €4,000, will pay the new charge, the Department of Finance confirmed. However, the spokesman added that state pensions may be excluded from this."
I can't find anything that indicates what the actual contribution is going to be or how it's going to be paid. It's just another way to screw us!!

The link below lists 12 changes in the budget that were more or less glossed over.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/budget/analysis-overview/the-dirty-dozen-tweaks-that-took-us-all-by-surprise-2454125.html

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