Replace bono with Enda and co, your comment still makes the same point Mr.Flynn!

Enda is a Saint. Him and my uncle Padraig, class acts

What a good idea. We don’t needs their billions or business acumen here anyway. Let them take it away to Switzerland.

Is that not were some of them may be living William otherwise they wouldn’t be tax exiles.

Kerry, I meant ALL their money. No one has to live in Ireland.

One solution is to cap tax, say at €500,000 per tax payer per year, then billions would roll into the state. Every time an industry gets a tax break it expands, it’s LESS tax we need, not more.

If you read the story, William, you’d see that we aren’t getting their billions anyway. Might just make them think for a second about whether there’s more to life than paying less tax.

Vodoo, that’s not how it works. People who earn large sums of money use the money to earn more money. Very few businessmen sit on their ass(ets).

If they pay 50% in tax on say €10,000,000 profit/income per year in Ireland then that’s €5,000,000 they don’t have to invest. Over say 7 years that’s maybe €70,000,000 to €140,000,000 less they’ll have. To some extent the money is what keeps the score. As well as that they may need the €100,000,000 odd to buy some large business.

With “workers” it’s generally different. Income is mainly just spent.

Tax should be capped or reduced as a percent and not increased. If it was we would ALL be better off.

The government just waste it anyway. Imagine paying €50,000,000 in tax to Reilly and his predecessors who blew it making a complete balls of designing and planning the children’s hospital.

I think you’ll find that’s exactly how it works – there should be a real penalty for not taking on one’s responsibilities as a citizen. I think you’ll find that human behaviour is driven by many more factors than simple bean counting.

You want to domicile yourself elsewhere and not pay your fair share of taxes, along with all your fellow citizens? Well, have at it my friend, but don’t expect to be able to spend half the year here and to come and go as you please. Don’t let the door hit you on the arse, etc.

Which leads to another thought – wouldn’t it be preferable, rather than for domicile to be decided by reference to the number of days spent out of the country, for tax to be charged proportionately per day spent in the country?

At the moment you can get away with paying no tax here by spending 182 days or less in the country in a calendar year, 280 days or less in two consecutive years, why not treat someone as having a proportionate domicile to the amount of time spent here and levy accordingly? I wouldn’t mind, but this probably wouldn’t even catch some of the Ansbacher type avoidance mechanisms that these guys avail of.

Tell you one thing, though, bad and all as Harney and Reilly are, I’d rather see that €50,000,000 invested in public services, even allowing for a bit of waste, than squirrelled away in the Caymens. Of course, our last two Ministers for Health seem to have been more concerned with preparing the HSE to be chopped up and sold off to the likes of these tax exiles than actually providing a functioning service.

Voodoo, where are you going with the “billions”?!

Don’t get me going about two faced Bono.

Yes, one face kissing the pope’s arse and the other politicians arses! This budget, will topple the award winning FG Facists!

Now, Don’t be going on about “Sir Bono” like that guys.

Tax Loopholes still not closed, yet ordinary folks been driven to despair! Put that in your Awards and smoke it, FG!

That’s right Stephen. It’s the ordinary that gets taxes imposed upon them overnight. Water, property, HHC, new digital communications licence…..all taxes taken from the working poor because these greedy, self indulgent hypocrites are in power. FG need to be shown who they actually work for and it’s not just those on the upper echelon of society. Budget day will tax a new hole out of us all.

On ballot papers unfortunately.

The church of Ryan air ! Behold O Leary the only true profit ! Big M and J coming second and third in the prophecy game !