So has Kate
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SINN FÉIN TAX REVENUE PROPOSALS
Introduce a 5% high income levy on individual incomes above €140,000
Extra annual tax revenue expectation: €452 million
Taper out tax credits on individual incomes over €100,000 to €140,000
€260 million
Introduce a wealth tax on the portion of net wealth held over €1 million with a number of exemptions including farms
€89 million
Increase Capital Acquisition Tax by 3% to rate of 36%
€45 million
Reduce the pensions earnings limit and the Standard Fund Threshold to €1.2 million
€494 million
Introduce a 15.75% rate of employer’s PRSI on portion of salaries over €100,000
€532 million
Tax intangible assets onshored by multinationals
€722 million
Increase Stamp Duty on commercial property to 12.5%
€440 million
Abolish the Special Assignee Relief Programme
€23 million
End the corporation tax break for the banks
€175 million
Increase income from the annual bank levy
€50 million
Increase the Dividend Withholding Tax on REITs and IREFs to 33%
€20 million
Increase the Vacant Site Levy to 15%
€107 million
Introduce a 2nd home charge at a rate of €400
€104 million
Scrap Help-to-Buy scheme
€102 million
SINN FÉIN TAX RELIEF PROPOSALS
Abolish USC on the first €30,000 earned
Annual tax cost expectation: €1,219 million
Abolish Local Property Tax
€485 million
Increase Earned Income Credit to €1,650
€35 million
1 month rent relief
€301 million
(“A three-year refundable tax credit for existing and new tenancies that would put a month’s rent back in every renter’s pocket”)
Retain mortgage interest relief
€35 million
Restore tax credit for trade union membership
€40 million
End motor tax surcharge for quarterly and 6-month payments
€43 million
Abolish 3% stamp duty on non-life insurance policies
€160 million
Abolish 2% levy on non-life insurance policies ~
€69 million
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Mythen marginally improves his local election showing by 18,000 votes.
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Miriam just pronounced the acronym I4C (Independents for change) as FourteenC
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He’s “pro-troops”. 
Think Malcolm Byrne might hang on in Wexford. And move immediately to #1 in the FF talent rankings.
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Some very good proposals there.
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I’m trying to think where Big Jim will get the transfers from. To be honest, I think the only transfers he’ll get will be left-wingers who are just trying to screw Eoghan Murphy. He needs to win big off Eamon Ryan and Chris Andrews.
A person on 100k already pays 12 times more income tax than a person on 25k.
They will now need to pay more which is fair.
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Hard to argue with most of them
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Colonel Chambers seemingly under pressure in Mayo.
Wonderful.
Michael Ring is an unmerciful stones of a man
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I’d sign up for that.
“I hope SF are prepared to go into government” says FG gobshite Michael Ring.
Your party has just spent the last month saying they’d NEVER go into government with them.
Michael Ring is some eejit
I have worked tirelessly for over 15 years to make this day possible.
Miriam needed to shut him up sooner
It’s shaping up to be some fall from grace for Big Jim. He looked all set for a seat at the cabinet table. Now he could well be crawling back to the Law Library with his tail between his legs to pull in a million or so a year at the Inner Bar.
Hospital consultants will flock to Ireland.