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Editorial: Very welcome promises to reduce personal taxation must be delivered upon

Michael McGrath’s final budget of this government is a good opportunity to ease burden on families and small businesses across the country

Finance Minister Michael McGrath has this weekend promised that tax cuts are on the way for people “at all income levels” next year. Picture: Rollingnew

It seems somewhat incongruous to be talking about Budget promises in April, but we are in election season and in the midst of national party conferences, so normal rules do not apply.

While Budget 2025 is not scheduled to take place until Tuesday, October 8, the spectre of local and European elections in June has sparked an earlier than usual round of kite-flying and promise-making.

Speaking to the Business Post in Luxembourg, Finance Minister Michael ...