Ireland reaps €700m Brexit bonanza from customs duties: Dublin records near-doubling of tax revenue from duties on imports of clothing, food and other goods from Great Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/29/ireland-reaps-700m-brexit-bonanza-from-customs-duties
Posted by zainab1900
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What a fucking gip. Straight from our pockets into the exchequer. Brexit is such a pox on us as individuals.
If it encourages more people to buy Irish, then well and good.
See this wouldn’t bother me at all if I thought for just a second that this would mean €700m more out into building houses or hiring health care staff.
But nah, we’ll have a committee to spend the money who pay themselves nice bonuses and give further money to greyhound racing.
We can spend it on all the fugees they’re sending over..
Buy Irish.
“Irish government reaps €700m bonanza out of the pockets of Irish people” this should say. You’d swear journalists think tax falls from the sky.
Hardly a great thing, it’s a cost we’re paying
Buy EU.
These duties are paid back to the eu. We don’t get to keep it. I think maybe less than 10% is all we can keep from it.
Amazing. Bragging about ripping off citizens.
That’s the duty “and handling fees” the bastards charged me on my wheelbarrow wheel bought from England.
Let’s bury it in our future funds pile that’ll never be used
The State getting more taxes isnt a bonanza for society thought