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A large green diseasel
According to the Sunday Business Post of 20 November 2011 (paywall), There is growing momentum behind a proposal to abolish the use of a green dye in subsidised agricultural diesel because of its...
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Tax-dodging boat-owners redivivus
In December I posted a piece suggesting that the amount of money received by the Revenue Commissioners in Mineral Oil Tax was far below what it should be. New readers may wish to know that, under an...
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More on Mineral Oil Tax
I showed here that very few boat-owners paid the Mineral Oil Tax for 2009 (38) and 2010 (41). I now have the figures for 2011 (MOT paid by 1 March 2012) and I can report that there has been a very...
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A call to patriotic action …
… said Brian Lenihan of his 2009 Budget, which did not greatly impress Michael Hennigan of FinFacts, who had a highly entertaining, if sadly prescient, article here. […] political self-interest,...
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Mineral Oil Tax returns for 2013
I have been pointing out for many years that the Mineral Oil Tax is paid by only a tiny minority of Irish boat-owners, although it should be paid by all those who use rebated (green) diesel for...
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Green diesel: reasoned opinion [updated]
Some news on one of our favourite topics. The European Commission has formally requested Ireland to amend its legislation to ensure that private pleasure boats can no longer buy lower taxed fuel...
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Better drowned than duffers
The Irish Sailing Association is at it again, lobbying for the retention of a system under which the vast majority of owners of diesel-powered private pleasure craft can safely engage in tax dodging....
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Now that the Department of Finance and the ISA have raised the white flag and abandoned the tax-evaders’ delight, the Mineral Oil Tax scheme for private pleasure craft, I thought I might rewrite my...
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I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance. That’s from the Gospel according to St Wikipedia....
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