Let’s recap some more.
A TD earns €92672K.
She pays her taxes. For a single PAYE worker in the private sector with standard deductions, that’s a net income of €55615.
Taxation with standard deductions. Source http://www.hookhead.com/Tools/tax2011.jsp
You can get away with less, but let’s go with €55615.
If she’s a Sinn Féin TD, she takes home €530 a week. That’s €27560 a year. The balance goes to the party. Some TDs make donations to HQ of €6000, and all, apparently, hand monies to their constituency organisation above the €530 per week.
That’s €28055 donated to the party by our notional TD.
There are 14 Sinn Féin TDs, and three senators.
No Sinn Féin TD has declared a donation in any calendar year of more than €6000.
Declared donations with SIPO in 2009 (most recent year available). Source: SIPO.ie
Some TDs and senators have not declared any donations in some calendar years.
SIPO has no record of multiple donations at local and national level from any Sinn Féin TD.
SIPO has no record of any advice to Sinn Féin about their “average wage” arrangement.
And a Sinn Féin senator thinks a donation to the party at local level is not a political donation.
What's the difference?
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Gerard Cunningham (@faduda) (@faduda)
September 25, 2011 at 3:09 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Sinn Fein and SIPO: When is a political donation not a political donation? http://t.co/W1oPu7If
Pauline Byrne (@med_chem)
September 25, 2011 at 3:13 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Interesting read: When is a political donation not a political donation? http://t.co/6X8U2BPs
Jim Daly (@psneeze)
September 26, 2011 at 6:40 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@gavreilly BTW: You may like this: http://t.co/TVphwrfA SIPO and Sinn Féin via @faduda
Simon McGarr
September 26, 2011 at 7:25 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
This is going to be great.
Simon McGarr (@Tupp_Ed)
September 26, 2011 at 7:34 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
.@faduda has a second post on the same tweets (with some sums) http://j.mp/paUkeP and a roundup of the story so far http://j.mp/phEGLC
Does SIPO consider a ‘donation in kind’ an exception to the legislation? « Slugger O'Toole
October 4, 2011 at 11:39 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
[...] One, if it is his salary (and not a money transfer to the bank account of the local party), then the publicly declared salary level is merely a useful fiction. If Gerard is correct the unaccounted for figures are quite substantial. [...]