Ireland should classify people who want to relocate to Ireland work in Interactive Marketing / Game Design / Digital Content Creation as authors / artists and subject them to low tax thresholds so many relocate in Ireland. Internet Marketing is the revenue generating layer of online sales. Creating fiscal incentives for Internet Marketers to relocate to Ireland could turn the country into a centre of excellence in this area over time. As many are driven by money, offering the best taxation structures for digital artists and marketeers could encourage many to relocate to Ireland. A means tested approach should be adopted to applying this same scheme for Irish individuals who work in such this area, whereby the side effects of their work and role can be clearly attributed significant additional revenue opportunities for Ireland. This may also encourage various individual digital content creators to base themselves in Ireland as they structure their businesses for tax efficiency, s More...

An easy opportunity for financial restructuring should be created to allow many people burdened with negative equity and debt to choose to pay an additional 10-15% of tax above each tax threshhold (eg. 30-35% base rate and 50-55% upper rate) going forwards to help them pay their debts, until their personal liabilities are cleared,, so they are taxed in a similar manner to emergency tax until they had paid a specific amount to offset their debts with creditors This could allow heavily indebted people to get on with their lives without placing undue burden accross the rest of the population to pay for their mistakes. This could also give people facing significant debt a clear and simple outcome for their fiscal position going forwards and act as an in-between measure to bankruptcy, thus allow many people who have found themselves in negative equity to pay off their liabilities out from future earnings. This could be implemented with the assistance of the revenue commissioners and a te More...

This idea is a more efficient way for the Revenue Commissioners to track sales of goods and services accurately where a receipt is normally issued by a vendor. I.E. restaurant, petrol station, taxis and self-employed. The idea wills incentive the customer to ask for a receipt at point of sale. All till rolls will be pre-printed by specially authorised printing company that are tax compliant. All receipts will be printed with a watermark and a Revenue stamp. The idea will eliminate the black market and raise awareness of Tax avoidance in the service industry. An estimated extra €50,000,000 each year could be collected by this easy idea.

Basically what I am proposing is to create a mirco economy that will eventually feed back into the main economy, and help in its recovery. This can be achieved by using a "BOOMERANG TAX" which does exactly as it says. A Tax levy of say 2% is aaplied to every taxpayer BUT they get it back in the form of Employment Vouchers, which (as tthe name suggests), can only be used to employment people. You can use the Emploument Vouchers employing anyone. It does'nt matter if they are already working or if they are in receipt of social welfare payments, you can still employ them as long as they can do the job. The Employment Vouchers could be used to pay for professional services, (Medical, Legal etc) trades (Carpentry, Plumbing etc), getting somone to do odd jobs around the house or garden. The list is endless. Obviously income tax has to be paid on the vouchers when thy have been earned. This could be stopped when they are being cashed in at your local bank, and that you attract a flat rate More...

My proposal is a system where consumers buying Irish products are rewarded by tax credits or rebate. There would be a labeling system on the products on the lines of the BER labeling. Products could have a FIR (FULLY IRISH RATING) rating in the sales of the product. Where an A labeled product if fully 100% Irish and an E or F labeled product is only 20 or 30 % Irish. The better the rating a product or service gets, the higher the tax credit / rebate for the consumer on purchasing their product or service. If a company uses Irish services for supply and distribution, employees Irish people and uses Irish raw materials then, their products would be rated more favorably and given say an A rating. This would be promoted and marketed to the consumer as being more attractive when a higher tax rebate /credit is given to purchase this product or service . This would increase sales and expand such companies that more Irish based than other companies. This can be on a pilot system for two yea More...

All available data shows that our battle to prevent the upcoming obesity crisis is failing spectacularly. It’s a huge task and the funding for this area has been disproportionately small relative to its significance in both human and financial terms. At least 2,000 premature deaths a year in Ireland are being attributed to obesity, and the cost to the State is estimated at €4 billion per year. And if we didn’t deal with it when we had the money to, then it’s highly unlikely that we’ll borrow now to fund the necessary measures. The fairest and most efficient way to kick start a sufficiently strong long-term flow of finance is to levy a tax on confectionery and fizzy drinks. Start at the most shameful end of the problem: childhood obesity. A project manager will be appointed to each school and co-ordinate and support the transition to healthy eating - that is, train existing catering staff, perhaps assist in appointing new staff, co-ordinate the involvement of a nutritionist in More...

All available data shows that our battle to prevent the upcoming obesity crisis is failing spectacularly. It’s a huge task and the funding for this area has been disproportionately small relative to its significance in both human and financial terms. At least 2,000 premature deaths a year in Ireland are being attributed to obesity, and the cost to the State is estimated at €4 billion per year. And if we didn’t deal with it when we had the money to, then it’s highly unlikely that we’ll borrow now to fund the necessary measures. The fairest and most efficient way to kick start a sufficiently strong long-term flow of finance is to levy a tax on confectionery and fizzy drinks. Start at the most shameful end of the problem: childhood obesity. A project manager will be appointed to each school and co-ordinate and support the transition to healthy eating - that is, train existing catering staff, perhaps assist in appointing new staff, co-ordinate the involvement of a nutritionist in More...

It is my belief that the Government will introduce a property tax which will effect every private residence in this Country. My proposal is a method of determining how much tax each household should pay. The significance of my proposal is that it gives the house owner an opportunity to effect how mush property tax he/she will have to pay. This will be based on the energy consumption of each house and the following is how I see it working: 1. There will be a three year lead in to the introduction of the property tax. 2. This will give each house owner the opportunity to have their house rated in terms of energy usage. The rating of each house will be carried out by Building Energy Rating Assessors. 3. The property tax will be based on the energy consumption opf the house. So the more energy efficient the house is the less property tax will be payable. 4. House owners can have work carrie don their homes like upgrading the heating systems, installing new energy efficient double/triple g More...

GIFT is an initiate that would gather the unemployed Irish workforce to volunteer, educate and barter their skills ENGAGING STUDENTS With the students and volunteers working for the most disadvantaged in our society and by keeping those involved busy with meaningful participation, we grow and encourage a generous ethos for the future and preventing any further costly decay of the most venerable in society. APPLYING WORKFORCE After acquiring work experience this way, the next step is to utilize the unemployed workforces’ skills on a part time basis, keeping your welfare benefits while being less costly for the employer, leaving more money for both parties to be spent in the economy. TRADING TRAINING Where education and training cannot be afforded, a bartering of skills together for a common goal. Alternatively an employer needs a specifically skilled and large workforce, he can hire one training coach who would educate and lead the new tailor made team, keeping our workforces e More...

During the current negative economic climate, the most difficult thing is to stay “positive” and attract the necessary (human and financial) resources to develop public policies and generate additional economic activity. Ireland must implement measures which are not frequently used by others in order to “beat” the current negative trend in a zero-sum logic. Ireland must be more competitive than most of the countries. I propose to your attention 4 main impact measures to be implemented on short and longer-term: 1. Regressive tax hybrid-Implementing several variations of regressive tax system in order to attract and facilitate additional economic activity and then taxes at a lower rate the positive difference between the profit/income of the previous period and the current period in a Win-Win situation for economic agents and the public budget. 2. Injecting into economy extra- budgetary resources-The local and central authorities could attract money to support public polici More...