Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion
1:00 pm
Dr. Donal de Buitléir:
I consider the current attitude to be the correct one. It is contestable, but I would leave it alone.
Self-employed persons on low incomes are badly treated under the tax system. I did some work on this issue recently. A self-employed person on €15,000 pays eight times as much in tax as an employee on the same income.
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