Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have already pointed for Deputy Micheál Martin to the plan we have set out to change the burden of 52% tax imposed on people. Deputy Micheál Martin is aware that this is the first step in this and the next two budgets to reduce the 52% level of tax. The increase in the threshold above which the universal service charge, USC, becomes payable, at €12,000, will remove a further 80,000 from the charge, a move that will benefit lower paid workers, on top of the over 200,000 taken out in 2012.

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