Budget 2023
Brian Keegan: Timing is everything as a new tax report lands in our midst
The findings of the current Commission on Taxation and Welfare come at a moment where inflation is rampant, and they could well prove to be a harbinger of impending economic mayhem
What is the best early predictor of economic chaos? Is it a slump in GDP, or a surge in inflation or interest rates, or perhaps a dip in the purchasing managers index? In this country, it may be the establishment of a Commission on Taxation.
While the findings of the current Commission on Taxation (and Welfare, to give it its full title) have been seeping out in the press in the past few days, its ...