Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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Are we confident in standing over the idea of regressive versus progressive when we talk about the overall distributive effect, which is where I would try to understand progressivity versus regressivity? We do know that a greater amount of the tax take is taken from higher income people and there is also the corporation take intake and VAT receipts, which are different in context and that tends to be regressive in that way. If we look at the net redistributive effect in the round if there are free fees, would that tend to redistribute wealth in society more towards lower income groups or higher income groups?