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WITH THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee currently seeking legal advice about investigating claims by a senior civil servant against former politicians, tax dodging is back on the agenda.
The majority of the latest tax avoidance claims relate to politicians who served in the Dáil prior to 2000 – although a small number continued in office after this date.
In 1993, the issue of tax evasion was also front and centre as Ireland introduced its second tax amnesty in five years.
The then Finance Minister – one Bertie Ahern - had no time for tax cheats, saying the Government had to take a “merciless view” on the matter.
“It would actually give me the greatest of pleasure watching non-compliant taxpayers going to jail,” he said.
This is immensely sad. It is such a travesty that we live in a country run by money grabbing gangsters who care more about their own pockets,looking after their buddies and how they look to the EU etc than they care about their own people. This country needs an absolute renovation and needs to see the gangsters and crooks removed but instead our media decides to essentially worship these sc um bags
My heart goes out to these two brave parents of two sweet innocent brave children.. 5yr olds. The age of 50 questions per minute. The age their personality’s are starting to form.
Yet we have a Goverment of side stepping cowboys.. Answer questions with questions. Spend more time looking up dirt to aim at their counterparts.
Ireland being a leading pharmaceutical producer who pay more for these medicines made here than countrys half way round the world..
Ashamed and shocked. Just another day in good ole Ireland..
Don’t look to Lourdes hospital in Drogheda where the top section for such is. Varadkar is avoiding it like the plague! Why? Because the Casualty unite there is an utter top national disaster. See: http://theupreport.org/2015/02/16/drogheda-lourdes-casualty-smacks-of-a-mash-unit/
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