Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
4:55 pm
Mr. Sebastian Barnes:
I think even in the short term it will be seen as not the most harmful tax to increase. I am sure I could find OECD papers that would support that case. One of the things the Deputy has been asking about is the impact on confidence, and of course that is a very difficult thing to measure. Many taxes have risen but it may be the taxes that are most obvious to people that have the greatest psychological impact. However, I am just speculating.
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