By ALISON O'RIORDAN
Sunday November 23 2008
The fight against the 'flight to Newry' has been launched by a countryside alliance as busloads of shoppers head for the border towns of Northern Ireland for the first recessionary Christmas spree in 20 years.
The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has formed an umbrella group of local organisations to persuade shoppers to 'Go Local' and put saving their own towns ahead of landing cross-border savings.
But just as the campaign was
Monday, December 12, 2011
Artists should not escape tax free
It's time to scrap the tax exemption for well-heeled artists and to dismantle Aosdana while we are at it, writes Liam Collins
Sunday September 27 2009
It's time to end the tax exemption for 'artists' and while he's at it, Brian Lenihan should dismantle that awful secret organisation set up by Charles Haughey called Aosdana.
Happily, I got the so-called exemption for two books that didn't deserve it -- but not for a third, that probably did but didn't meet the criteria.
The
Sunday September 27 2009
It's time to end the tax exemption for 'artists' and while he's at it, Brian Lenihan should dismantle that awful secret organisation set up by Charles Haughey called Aosdana.
Happily, I got the so-called exemption for two books that didn't deserve it -- but not for a third, that probably did but didn't meet the criteria.
The
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