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Here's what Budget 2025 means for your payslip if you're earning €20,000

Minister for Finance Jack Chambers announced a number of changes to tax this afternoon.

BUDGET 2025 HAS officially been announced, with a range of one-off payments and some changes to taxes charged on income.

Minister for Finance Jack Chambers announced a number of changes to tax this afternoon, including:

An increase to the entrance to the higher rate of tax for PAYE workers (from €42,000 to €44,0000).

The measures will affect people differently depending on their income. You can find out what exactly they mean for you with The Journal’s Budget Calculator.

For a person earning an annual income of €20,000, here’s a breakdown of how your tax will (or won’t) change.

We’ll also be bringing you examples of what it means for people earning €40,000, €60,000 and €100,000 as well as our full Budget coverage on government spending, social welfare, and other changes.

PAYE

The changes to PAYE will only affect people earning over €42,000, as the threshold has been raised to €44,000.

If you are earning €20,000 a year, you are already only paying the lower rate of tax and so there will be no difference.

Personal tax credits and employee tax credits are increasing by €125 each. 

That means savings on PAYE for a single person earning €20,000 will amount to zero from the PAYE changes and €250 from changes to credits.

USC

Changes to USC have also been announced with the 4% rate cut to 3% on incomes between €25,000 and €70,000.

However, for a person earning €20,000 there will be no change to the amount of USC they pay:

  • 0.5% on the first €12,012 = €60
  • 2% on the amount between €12,012 and €20,000 = €275

This is the same as what they will pay in 2025.

Total

The only tax savings for people on €20,000 will be €250

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    Mute David Plant
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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:03 PM

    If you are earning 20k you are getting a lot more from the state than you are being taxed.

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    Mute Gavan Hogan
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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:04 PM

    @David Plant: Like what ?

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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:15 PM

    @Gavan Hogan: you get the exact same service as someone walking into an A&E who earns €200k and hasn’t bought health insurance for starters

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    Mute John Purcell
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    Oct 1st 2024, 5:17 PM

    @David Plant: if you’re earning 20grand you are some that works and doesn’t claim hap unemployment benefit etc

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    Oct 1st 2024, 5:22 PM

    @Gavan Hogan: social housing, medical card just to name two.

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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:25 PM

    More guards to police the Facebook and ‘the far right’..

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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:26 PM
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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:34 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: was alright when it was ‘Brits out’?!

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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:42 PM

    @pat kelly: Brendan is dying for sharia law.

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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:57 PM

    @Freda Peeple: He wants it so bad he can taste it.. Elon Musk to Don Lemon.. Lol

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    Oct 1st 2024, 5:47 PM

    @pat kelly: funny, I thought the right were meant to be big on law and order, so more gardai would be a good thing, no?

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    Oct 2nd 2024, 3:53 PM

    @Kevin Kerr: if only it were that simple..

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    Mute Paul
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    Oct 1st 2024, 5:00 PM

    Great…my tax bill goes down from 61k to 59k next year!

    Dole scroungers should be thanking the Lord that I work in Ireland!

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    Mute Gavan Hogan
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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:01 PM

    Thanks for nuttin.

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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:31 PM

    Do same article for those earning 90k

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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:44 PM

    @Joe Beirne: “We’ll also be bringing you examples of what it means for people earning €40,000, €60,000 and €100,000″

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    Oct 1st 2024, 4:47 PM

    @Tricia G28: thanks but that’s not 90k

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    Oct 1st 2024, 9:42 PM

    Who earns just €20k per year? The minimum wage is €12.70 per hour. Based on a working week of 37.5 hours that equates to over €24,000 per year. I am at a loss to understand the point of this article unless – without actually saying so- it is referring to part-time workers.

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