Inside Budget 2027: ‘The meeting was brutal’ - the tensions on the road to new spending package
In 10 days Simon Harris and Jack Chambers will present their budget – in Government back rooms the horse-trading with fellow Ministers is in full swing
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Monzo’s EU chief in Dublin to quit to launch start-up
Michael Carney plans startup focused on AI and robotics to support people living with disabilities
Ireland’s corporate tax cake gets bigger
Department of Finance signals corporate tax receipts will exceed its current €35.3 billion projection by ‘a wide margin’
Ministers seek more help with third-level fees and return of energy credits in budget
Extension of rent-a-room relief and cost-of-disability payment mooted, cut in tax on home heating oil ‘certain’
French minister wants Ireland to share its technology tax billions
French finance minister calls for large tax revenues from tech multinationals to be more fairly distributed across EU
Workers’ demands for a cost-of-living package won’t be easily dismissed
Jack Chambers and Micheál Martin are giving mixed messaging on social partnership
Corporation tax to exceed €35.3bn forecast by a wide margin
Receipts from the tax on business profits will exceed the Department of Finance’s forecast by a wide margin, figures suggest
Good cop, bad cop: Harris and Chambers toy with electorate ahead of budget
Government’s income tax package could be worth as little as €10 a month to the average worker
Ireland’s failure premium: All the property schemes do one thing. It’s not help buyers
Phenomenon of setting out to financially help people only to leave them worse off is so commonplace in Irish economic policy that I have given it a name: the failure premium
No plans to cut stamp duty for first-time buyers in budget, says Harris
Minister for Finance says focus of the €1.5 billion tax package planned for the budget would be on income tax
Ireland’s new savings scheme: How will it work, and will it make us wealthier?
Irish people’s natural caution means we may not make the most of new personal investment accounts
The two things that make Ireland expensive: Energy and housing
The drivers of Ireland’s high-cost economy are many but two stand out
Free education was a gamble that is still paying off
Free secondary education and a national system of school transport were transformational
Record €66bn in tax collected in first eight months of 2026
Government spending is running ahead of increased tax returns in percentage terms
Key decisions on new Government investment account scheme deferred until Budget 2027
Government defers action on deemed disposal rules under existing investment regime to Budget 2028
Changes to 38% tax paid on investment funds to be considered ‘in coming weeks’
Simon Harris’s long-mooted savings plan is designed to lure some of the €170bn out of regular deposit accounts
What is the purpose of the Fiscal Advisory Council?
Simon Harris will ignore the advice, as has every other minister for finance
TG4 says progress in gaining editorial control of Nuacht service from RTÉ ‘extremely slow’
Irish language broadcaster asks for €11m more funding in Budget 2027
There is little indication we have a plan for what to do if the AI bubble bursts
Ireland has weathered a lot of economic storms, but this one could catch us off guard
New Government plan aims to increase financial services jobs to 70,000
Coalition publishes fresh strategy to cut red tape and boost competitiveness in key sector
Encouraging public servants to take more risks is a terrible idea
The public service compensates for its technical shortcomings with seemingly unlimited recourse to expensive external consultants
Multinationals paid additional €1bn in July as new 15% tax rate kicks in
Government has collected €59.6bn in tax to date in 2026, up €1.6bn on same period last year
There have been 46 housing tax measures since 2013 - and still the crisis rolls on
Housing incentives like Help-to-Buy, once introduced, are very hard to remove and all too often, the law of unintended consequences comes into play
Departments face sanctions for spending breaches, Chambers warns
Minister for Public Expenditire Jack Chambers warns ministers they are now the architects of their own fiscal space
Are middle earners ripped off by the Irish income tax system?
There are options to lower taxes but doing so requires political decisions
How bad would an AI crash really be for Ireland?
Department of Finance’s attempt to gauge potential damage is limited but useful
Ireland’s Potemkin budget: figures belong in the fiction section of the library
The only certainty is that Ireland will continue to rely on rising corporate tax revenues to pay the bills at the end of the year
Readers would surely like to hear what the Irish position is on next EU budget
Should we not now be EU frugals, being net contributors?
Property-based tax measures could cost close to €1.4bn this year, tax papers show
Reduction in VAT on apartments to cost nearly €400m
Ireland faces lower employment and weaker growth if AI bubble bursts
Department of Finance research suggests sliding demand if US stock markets plunge
Civil Service needs more staff with deep expertise and specialist skills, not generalists
Time is ripe to follow UK lead and hire for roles that offer specialists a career pathway and professional development
‘Michael Collins would be pleased’: Sinn Féin praises Harris for Ireland unification presentation
Tánaiste says question is ‘not simply what a united Ireland would cost, but what a united Ireland could create’
Looking for a low-cost loan from your employer? Forget about it
Regime hasn’t been changed since 2013, which means it is no longer used
Central Bank warns spending trajectory could ‘deplete fiscal buffers’
Gabriel Makhlouf says in a pre-budget letter to Minister that the underlying budget deficit could rise to €25.7bn by 2030
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