The Revenue Commissioners has announced that the planned abolition of flat-rate expenses for teachers from 1 January 2020 will not now go ahead. It has referred an impending review to the Tax Strategy Group with a view to delaying implementation until 1 January 2021.
The ASTI has lobbied hard to prevent this proposal to abolish the expense. We have raised it with Revenue, the Government, opposition parties and within The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU). We made a joint submission with our fellow teacher trade unions to argue strenuously that the proposal should be abandoned.
We are delighted that our campaign, which secured an initial postponement of the change last year has now yielded a further delay to 2021.
