{"id":339,"date":"2012-01-07T08:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T08:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-cock-up-leaves-thousands-of-pensioners-sick-with-worry-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T08:39:35","slug":"government-cock-up-leaves-thousands-of-pensioners-sick-with-worry-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-cock-up-leaves-thousands-of-pensioners-sick-with-worry-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Government cock-up leaves thousands of pensioners sick with worry \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Government cock-up leaves thousands of pensioners sick with worry \u2013 Crowe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said the government\u2019s handling  of 115,000 pensioners facing tax liabilities has left thousands sick  with worry and fright.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said it will come across as unbelievable to most people  that two government departments, revenue and social protection, have not  been sharing information regarding people on state pensions and private  pensions.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking today as thousands of pensioners were informed that they  have not been paying the proper level of tax Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis  news comes as people are trying to get used to new budgetary  arrangements such as the increased VAT rate, the household charges,  septic tank levies and increased motor and fuel taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest news will have come as a huge shock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  government\u2019s handling of the issue has been shambolic.\u00a0 First of all  these people were told that they are liable for more tax in 2012. This  morning a spokesperson from revenue, speaking on RT\u00c9, didn\u2019t rule out  revenue pursuing these pensioners for back payments over a period of six  years causing further shock for these people.\u00a0 And then by eleven  o\u2019clock they are told that they do not need to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taoiseach needs to call in his Ministers and get straight  answers and bring clarity to this shambolic situation. Thousands of  pensioners are sick with worry and fright and need to be relieved of  this latest burden.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government cock-up leaves thousands of pensioners sick with worry \u2013 Crowe Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said the government\u2019s handling of 115,000 pensioners facing tax liabilities has left thousands sick with worry and fright. Deputy Crowe said it will come across as unbelievable to most people that two government departments, revenue and social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}