Reducing the income tax burden and the USC have been central to what this Government has designed and delivered in the context of our overall tax package and this reduction in USC will be important in the overall tax people pay in 2025 and it is a welcome change. None of us likes paying tax, be it income tax, USC or any of it.
Between the Finance Bill and the Social Welfare Bill, we have done that in terms of USC changes, changes to tax plans, changes to things like the renter's tax credit, even some of the changes around the home carer's tax credits and so on, so some of what this Bill does is keep everybody where they are. Rather than introducing a specific tax on wealth, the commission noted it would be more effective to re-examine the primary existing forms of wealth tax, such as capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Mattie McGrath.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: "That the proposed arrangements for this week's business be agreed to." | Carried | 72–58 |
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