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A 52-YEAR-OLD Italian skier died and a British holidaymaker was left seriously injured after a violent collision on a gentle blue piste in a French Alpine resort at the weekend, emergency services said.
The Italian was knocked unconscious and could not be revived after he skied into the 33-year-old Briton yesterday in Les Deux Alpes in an area used both by beginners and more experienced downhillers.
The British skier was taken to a nearby hospital in Grenoble where he is being treated for head injuries, the mountain rescue service in the local Isere region said.
The French Alps have been hit by a series of avalanches in recent weeks following heavy snowfall.
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Mistake my arse! VAT collected demonstrates how strong or weak the domestic economy is. By inflating VAT figures the govt gives the incorrect impression that things are better than they are.
100 million is 5% of the original figure given for vat receipts, therefore the domestic economy is performing at 5% less than we were led to believe.
Yes but income tax shows on increase in wages or the workforce, showing an expansion in productivity in the domestic economy.Swings and roundabouts.
Joe, income tax is up €5 million. That’s probably due to increased salaries in the public service;
if you take the tax paid on €34k for a single person (circa €7k) €5 million equates to an extra 3,000 jobs.
So, the corrected figures are actually terrible.
Apparently it’s up over 100 million now with this adjustment so someones doing well.
Increased salaries in the public service? Where have you you been the last 6 years? Have you not heard of the Croke Park agreement? What about the Haddington Road agreement only signed last year??
They also mis-classified private bankers debt as sovereign debt!
It’s a common enough issue at the moment.
The board of Rehab mixed up state funds to aid those with disabilities with their own personal cash.
Alan Shatter mixed up being elected with being an incarnation of the Messiah.
The Gardai mixed up legal with illegal.
The list goes on …
Who would have thought it another Cardiff in Finance. Good to know we have such experts managing our budget….
The money was just resting in my account
Accounting classification error with no money lost, no biggie.
Spin.
Someone trying to “boost” commercial activity while playing down the contribution taxpayers make to the “recovery” of commercial activity…
Increased income tax revenue would show an increase in employment seeing as the rate of income tax hasn’t been increased in over 4 years. Why would the government not want to advertise that fact?
Or maybe it was just a mistake?
And the muppet show continues…..
And those Dof muppets get an ‘allowance’ for working in the dof! Priceless – only in ireland
And the incompetence continues.
Gombeens All.
@margaret. Aah,Give them a break. They had nothing but beans to count for the last 4 years and now there is a few quid around! Let them get back into the swing and they’ll be fine! Otherwise sure we can ship them off to Brussels, the hiding place for fu@kups!
Sad thing is that nothing surprises us anymore, I know we didn’t lose any money but for Christ sake if they can’t get the basics right then you have to worry
Ah sure it only 101million, shrapnel
The last idiot who did this, Kevin Cardiff got a job in Brussels.
Shambles of a government
Please remind me how much we pay these so called professional officials ?
Even the what can I be offended by today mob will struggle with this one…
Mob rules ,so they say ! But really ,it’s the same difference ,isn’t it ? You being a successful entrepreneur ,can you explain to the rest of the uneducated mob , what does it mean ?
Piss ups and breweries spring to mind.
If an SME got their figures mixed up, Revenue wouldn’t be long about imposing fines and am audit.
At least someone is checking the figures. Correction within a week of the original publication is not bad.
Should NOT happen to begin with
The Muppet Show.
At least it was dealt with quickly and openly. It is an improvement.
Same thing really ..
Not really Nicole.
“Oh, we mixed up income tax and VAT.. Oh how we laughed”..
Is the government even real in this country or is it a dream I’m in? What’s the story with these dipsos this isn’t the first time something like this has happened I don’t think. Great, the money is still there, but it’s the government and €101m, they should be on the ball!! Can’t wait till them muppets get booted out of power
We are all human (SF/IRA excluded) and can make mistakes.
Fool
It’s only small change rattling about in the coffers .
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