Article: FINE Gael leader Enda Kenny has warned that the trade union proposal to introduce a third tax rate for high earners is not the solution to solving the country's public finances crisis.

Fine Gael warns that third tax rate is not the solution

Aidan O'Connor and Paul Melia

FINE Gael leader Enda Kenny has warned that the trade union proposal to introduce a third tax rate for high earners is not the solution to solving the country's public finances crisis.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions wants a third tax rate of 54pc for workers earning more than '100,000 as part of the solution to solve the public finances deficit.

Mr Kenny repeated his Party's belief yesterday that the Government cannot tax the country back to economic recovery and tackling waste in public finances should be Finance Minister's Brian Lenihan's key ...

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