Newspaper articles - 8th February, 2012

Low income groups have too little for basic living standards - Irish Times

LOW-INCOME FAMILIES and those who are unemployed do not have enough money to achieve a basic standard of living, according to a report published yesterday. A Minimum Income Standard for Ireland, funded by the Department of Social Protection and carried out by the Policy Institute at Trinity College in conjunction with the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice, followed an international budget standard to establish the cost of a minimum standard of living for Irish families.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0207/1224311400816.html

Finance Bill will include tax breaks to lure top earners here - Irish Times

TAX INCENTIVES aimed at luring senior multinational executives to Ireland, in a bid to boost job creation, will feature in the Finance Bill which is due to be published today. The special tax breaks are aimed at so-called project champions who would relocate to Ireland to oversee significant investments and will apply to indigenous as well as multinational firms. Top-earning executives have reportedly been less keen to locate here following increases in income taxes in recent years which have brought the marginal rate to 52 per cent for PAYE workers.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/0208/1224311465114.html

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