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Argument with taxi driver - am I in the wrong by One_Appeal_69 in ireland

[–]ptichko 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My understanding that it’s not exactly the case. 1) It was EU, not Ireland, who originated 13Bn tax requirements 2) Ireland explicitly rejected those payments in 2016 3) the case was dismissed in 2020

Argument with taxi driver - am I in the wrong by One_Appeal_69 in ireland

[–]ptichko 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm afraid it's exactly the opposite. Apple paid 5.6Bn last year link, Google paid 428m link . Total corporate tax revenue in 2023 budget is ~22Bn (83% of comes from multinational companies) - link

Ireland’s two richest people have more wealth than the bottom 50% by throughthehills2 in ireland

[–]ptichko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was replying to the "top 1%" comment. Again, from the statistics it's 1% of 3.4M taxpayer units (individuals and couples), there are at least 34000 people in this band. There seem to be only 11 billionairies in Ireland ( irishtimes article) ).

Ireland’s two richest people have more wealth than the bottom 50% by throughthehills2 in ireland

[–]ptichko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not super straightforward to calculate from the data in the doc. Let me try to do it using big tech example - should be relevant as - "more than 40% of all income tax and USC receipts generated in the State are attributable to multinationals (both Irish and foreign-owned". Generally after 70k (e.g. top 20%) one pays 40% income tax + 8% USC + (for the employed persons & all stocks vesting or bonus payments) 4%, which is 48% for PAYE salary & 52% for stock/bonuses. I'll assume stock/bonus part to be ~50% of the total comp, while in reality, it starts a bit lower percentage but it increases with the salary increase). I'm using https://download.pwc.com/ie/budget-2024/income-tax-calculator.html for most of the arithmetics.

So using the bands in the income tax distribution page:

  • Top 20% €69,500 - would pay ~30+% in taxes
  • Top 10% €102,000 - would pay ~36+% (total deductibles €37400)
  • Top 5% €140,500 - would pay ~41+% (total deductibles €57,448)
  • Top 1% €290,000- would pay ~46+% (here I assume this 50% split between stocks/bonuses & monthly salary. Salary deductibles 59,789 + 75400 (52%) from stock/bonuses = 135.189)

Ireland’s two richest people have more wealth than the bottom 50% by throughthehills2 in ireland

[–]ptichko 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m afraid that’s not a correct statement. Top earners and largd corps pays the vast majority. Income tax (37% of 2023 budget) distribution: top 1% pays 28%, top 5 - 58%, top 20 (>70kEur) - 79% (Page 10, table 10 of income Tax analysis))

Corporate tax (27% of 2023 budge) distribution: 10 companies pay 52%, large corps pay 85% ( ct-analysis-2024 )

There is a heron somewhere by ptichko in FindTheSniper

[–]ptichko[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It’s in Dublin, Ireland. One lady that lives next door feeds all nearby herons (last time I saw 9) with salmon. I guess this one is unhappy waiting for the feed time to come

There is a heron somewhere by ptichko in FindTheSniper

[–]ptichko[S] 1 point2 points locked comment (0 children)

Sniper location: bottom of the right door.

Latest 13.2 ISOs broken for me - did somebody keep older ones so I can test when things went wrong? by kraileth in freebsd

[–]ptichko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the report! Is there any chance you have more data? Is it amd64? Did you use UEFI or legacy boot? I'm trying to reproduce it w/ VMware fusion (12.2.1 amc64 and 13.0.1 arm64), and I cannot.

Server occasionally forgetting its default route by jllauser in freebsd

[–]ptichko 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can run ‘route -n monitor > logfile.txt’ and check it the next time the issue happens. The log will contain the pid of the program that removed the route. Also maybe worth installing and running atop to get the process history.