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  • Budget 2026: Employers take up residence in Government Buildings

    Workers pay for business tax breaks as government fails to index tax bands Housing crisis will not be solved by patchwork of subsidies and tax giveaways Responding to Budget 2026, trade union Unite warned today that many workers will be running to stand still following the government’s decision to focus on tax breaks for builders…

  • New vehicle BIK rules: Government accused of greenwashing tax grab

    Unite calls for changes due in January 2023 to be scrapped Trade union Unite has slammed new Benefit in Kind (BIK) rules due to take effect on 1 January 2023 which could result in employees who use company cars for work paying hundreds of Euro extra in tax, and has called on the Government to…

  • Brendan Ogle: Ideological Budget puts enriching the few above the needs of the many

    Package offers little for working people Unite’s Senior Officer in the Republic of Ireland, Brendan Ogle, has said that Tuesday’s Budget was an “ideologically driven package” which offers little to working people and “further embeds the pattern of public crises to enrich private, vested interests”. Speaking in Dublin, Mr Ogle condemned the continued focus on…

  • Public housing must be centrepiece of Budget 2019

    Unite calls for broadening of tax base, massive investment in public housing October 7th: Unite today issued a Pre-Budget Comment outlining the union’s priorities for Budget 2019.  Pointing out that the Government has not only declined to use all its available fiscal space but also proposes to set aside €500 million this year for a…

  • Workers will be losers in tax-cutting auction

    Unite warns against undermining public services Union says abolition of USC would be bonus for highest earners December 15th: Unite today expressed concern at what it termed a ‘tax cutting auction’ being conducted in the media as political parties position themselves ahead of a General Election. Regional Secretary Jimmy Kelly warned that low income earners…

  • We need a corporate tax regime for 21st century

    In submission to Joint Sub-Committee on Global Taxation, union says current regime failing to deliver investment and tax revenue Ireland’s effective tax rate less than half the average of other Advanced European Economies May 28th: Unite today presented a submission to the Oireachtas Joint Sub-Committee on Global Taxation in which the union pointed out that,…