Budget 2023: Rent credit, vacant homes tax and social welfare increases
Everything you need to know about Budget 2023 and the emergency measures for the remainder of 2022… After much proclamation and prognosticating, Budget 2023 is finally here. As widely anticipated, it’s something of a ‘two for the wildly expensive price of one’ scenario, with business as usual applying to everyday Irish life, alongside once-off measures brought forth […]
4 years ago
What budget 2023 means for the hospitality industry: Cider, energy schemes, and licensing laws
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has described budget 2023 as a “cost-of-living Budget”. The eagerly awaited Budget 2023 has been announced on September 27, with a range of measures aiming to tackle the cost-of-living crisis we are now facing due to the war in Ukraine. Small businesses were evident throughout Minister Donohoe’s budgetary speech, “the […]
4 years ago
€600 energy credits and free schoolbooks for kids expected for Budget 2023
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has previously promised tomorrow’s budget will be about “putting more money in people’s pockets”. Energy credits worth €600 for all Irish households and free schoolbooks for primary school children are amongst the headline measures set to be announced in the budget tomorrow (27 September). Multiple news reports have suggested such measures are […]
4 years ago
Wage schemes extended, work-from-home claims, price hikes in cigarettes and petrol – Budget 2021 highlights
320,000 jobs are expected to have been lost due to Covid by the end of 2020. Today’s “unprecedented” €17 billion spending budget for 2021 is based on three assumptions that could change in the next few weeks or months: There won’t be a Covid-19 vaccine available next year There won’t be a Brexit trade deal […]
6 years ago