Budget 2023

"In his Budget speech, Minister Donohoe said, "There are so many people who work hard, but whose earnings push them outside of access to social welfare benefits. We need to help them too, we need to put money back into their pockets."

We should help them too 🙄

How are they not the first focus of every budget since that cohort pays for everything in the bleedin' country.

The Average industrial wage is €45,760...why is the average wage anywhere near the 40% Highest tax bracket. Bloody Bizarre.

If the money is spent on PT and not on subsidised e-cars it solves both problems.

State grants for people to switch to EVs and put further strain on our struggling grid is stupidity. The money is better spent elsewhere

Council houses down the road from me got a full setup recently, I mentioned it on here a while back, Houses got fully wrapped in outer insulation, new windows & doors and solar panel systems. 50 - 60 K worth of upgrades for free. Pretty sweet deal.

All older houses. They look brand new now.

and same with you when I seen yours always attacking the post and not the actual math behind it.

Low payed worker and got SFA other than the minimum wage increase from this budget while social welfare gets an increase and stuff like a one off double payment with the usual Xmas Bonus

What’s in it for renters and how do we get the credit? Revenue.ie or something?

Happy with:

Increasing tax bands/credits*

Reduction in college fees and childcare

Free contraception for women

Not happy with:

Fuel Allowance (Get people out of cars while we can, goes directly against our climate change objectives)

Bit too much thrown at people on the Dole

Lack of help for Low-Middle income earners

HTB extension and other housing schemes (Just facilitates price increases)

*Affects me personally

As far as I can see just the tax band changing will affect me, would much rather they put some more of this money away for a rainy day or paid off the debt but there's a fair whiff of vote buying here.

Because average is the average of everyone in the country. The average wage of someone earning 100k and someone earning 20k is 60k. By the reasoning you've provided there on a basic scale you'd wind up with the person on 100k paying no tax on most of their wages.

So explain to me what the problem is? I just don't get it?

It's also not about the solar panels, heat pumps etc, it seems to me that people scream for more social housing to be built but then begrudge it when people get it and then criticise these people for having a car.

The minimum wage went up by 7.6% only 2 weeks ago. Not going to go up again!

Also it was announced by Paschal that €6bn will be put into the national reserve rainy day fund over the next year.

I fùcking hate budget day....same aul wànk every year.....

- Leaks galore pre the actual speech....

- Same whingers rolled out every year saying its not enough..."its a disgrace"...gimme gimme gimme...

- RTE news going over the top on the coverage trying to justify their grossly overpaid jobs and staffing levels...

- Sinn Fein saying they would spend way more on XYZ....fantasy land shìte....

- Rinse and repeat ad nasuem throughout the day...

- Finish off with octomum on Prime Time talking to some bellend from KPMG about whats in it for different types of people.....in front of a loaded audience of whingers that say " it doesnt go far enough"....

Finished off with a final debate of paschal v doherty.....

Same shìte - different year.... like christmas, without the chocolates and willy wonka....

Does this sound correct?

Salary 41k and pension contribution for the year is 2k so taxable income is therefore 39k - when i look at the tax calculators that are up now, it looks like i lose the 40% tax relief on the pension and it's down to 20%? Would that be correct?