A tanning tax.
Twitter has reacted to the Government's new tanning tax.
Minister for Finance and for Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe has announced that VAT on sunbed services will increase from 13.5% to 23%.
His reasons for the increase were down to health grounds, with skin cancer one of the main factors for the change, and, although the tax on tanning is a first for the government, it has been described as a big step in tackling Ireland's most prevalent cancer.
The proposal was initially moved by the Social Democrats in the run-up to Budget 2018 where they asked for a levy to be imposed on sunbed use.
https://twitter.com/onenonevent/status/917729346219134976
https://twitter.com/ITdominiccoyle/status/917729501991366656
https://twitter.com/EugeneMurphyTD/status/917731327876780032
Of course, everyone was making the same joke about the few minutes in the Budget where the increase on cigarettes, sugar tax and sunbed tax were all announced...
https://twitter.com/conor_pope/status/917729665032302592
https://twitter.com/CWeston_Indo/status/917729601438273536
https://twitter.com/DebsNaylor/status/917729812659212288
Those three big hitters came nearly one after another but thankfully, the tax on a big bag of cans is safe, for this year anyway...
https://twitter.com/Tiananmens/status/917732296991694849
