Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Government is doing its level best to trumpet and spin a supposed give-back to workers in the coming budget. My question seeks to put any so-called give-back in the context of how much workers and ordinary citizens have actually lost since 2008 on the various austerity taxes and charges, be it the local property tax, LPT, the universal social charge, USC, the pension levy or the household tax. What are the annual and total figures for all of these austerity charges and taxes?

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