The Clare Chair of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association says the suggestion to treble PRSI for farmers would be a severe blow for the sector.
The Commission on Taxation and Welfare has proposed the government increase the rate paid by self-employed workers from 4% to 11.05% over time.
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The commission will publish its report today, and is highlighting how the benefits afforded to the self-employed have increased in the last number of years without a rise in social insurance.
O’Callaghan’s Mills farmer Martin McMahon says farmers this year will struggle to pay the existing rate of PRSI.
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