This is the main finding from a recent study conducted by The National Youth Agency in association with the Low Income Tax Reform Group (LITRG). The aim of the group is to persuade politicians and the Revenue to make the tax system easier and fairer.
Our survey asked young people what they would like to know about the tax system. From the survey responses, we can offer some tentative conclusions about what young people know and think about tax.
When it comes to the tax system, it is easy to stray onto the wrong side of the law without realising it. In preparation for the real world, young people arguably do not receive enough financial education; and the tax system (in which term we also include tax credits and national insurance) is one area about which most are ignorant when they leave school.
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