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Brian Keegan

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Housing

Brian Keegan: Tax breaks for developers are the elephant in the room

Nobody wants to be seen to profit from the housing crisis, but everyone loses out if we insist on retaining the tax status quo
  • Brian Keegan
  • December 3, 2022
Tax

Brian Keegan: Despite external risks, domestic policy errors would do more harm

Conditions may be chaotic, but the outlook for the Irish exchequer is not necessarily bleak
  • Brian Keegan
  • November 5, 2022
Budget 2023

Brian Keegan: Tax and support policy must also urgently accommodate property sector

Last week’s budget correction in the Finance Bill means that trades, manufacturing and services are now treated equally in terms of tax and supports, but landlords and tenants need more
  • Brian Keegan
  • October 22, 2022
Budget 2023

Brian Keegan: The three mistakes the government avoided in Budget 2023

Paschal Donohoe and Michael McGrath have managed a careful balancing act, but the capacity issues that have caused problems in many sectors remain
  • Brian Keegan
  • September 27, 2022
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
  • Brian Keegan
  • September 10, 2022
Agriculture

Brian Keegan: Concerns of farmers serve as a magnifying glass on politics

The resolution of the agriculture emissions problem requires it to be seen for what it is: a problem of oversupply of a by-product
  • Brian Keegan
  • August 6, 2022
Budget 2023

Brian Keegan: We’ve passed our economics exams, but the budget is something else

Glowing reports from the IMF won’t mean much to those struggling with rent, fuel and food costs
  • Brian Keegan
  • July 9, 2022
Tax

Brian Keegan: Why is Ifac calling for a rainy day fund as the skies begin to clear?

Many other developed countries would give their right arm to be in the solid economic position we are in. Yet we seem afraid to spend that largesse on causes that desperately need it
  • Brian Keegan
  • June 4, 2022

Brian Keegan: Would age-specific taxation help to halt Ireland’s brain drain?

As a country, we consistently ask the wrong questions about our industrial and investment policy
  • Brian Keegan
  • May 8, 2022

Brian Keegan: How do you fund services without raising taxes? You can raise wages

A wage increase would generate hundreds of millions of euro in tax yield without much political or social pushback
  • Brian Keegan
  • April 3, 2022

Brian Keegan: Ukraine invasion has made a fast, decisive union out of slow, bureaucratic EU

Regardless of the outcome of Russia’s illegal war, there has been a profound, and perhaps permanent, change of mindset in the European approach
  • Brian Keegan
  • March 6, 2022

Brian Keegan: the government should continue the Covid-19 habit of trusting experts when it comes to the retirement age debate

There is no evidence to support the status quo, so why are politicians still waiting to make a decision?
  • Brian Keegan
  • February 6, 2022

Brian Keegan: France has big plans for its EU presidency

Emmanuel Macron aims to have the 15 per cent corporate tax proposals in force by this time next year, and that’s not the half of it
  • Brian Keegan
  • January 9, 2022

‘Solidarity levy’ could be one of many new costs of a united Ireland

We need more information on the opportunities and challenges that a 32-county regime would bring for businesses as well as individuals
  • Brian Keegan
  • December 5, 2021

Brian Keegan: Sinn Féin and the Democrats both need a change in tax policy

Excessively taxing one particular cohort in society may be politically expedient, but it’s not a realistic long-term strategy
  • Brian Keegan
  • November 7, 2021

Brian Keegan: Budget set to restore the ‘Reynolds equilibrium’

Our circumstances today share numerous parallels with 1991, when Albert Reynolds delivered the first ever televised budget speech
  • Brian Keegan
  • October 10, 2021

Brian Keegan on tax: While the grass may be greener, the tax benefits of offshore working are not black and white

Given Ireland’s pandemic-related national debt, significant income tax cuts in the near future seem unlikely, but moving abroad to work remotely will not always result in savings either
  • Brian Keegan
  • June 20, 2021

Brian Keegan: Sustainability will tax minds long after other issues are forgotten

Corporation tax might be dominating the headlines now, but environmental matters are of more long-term importance to international finance
  • Brian Keegan
  • June 13, 2021

Brian Keegan: Vat’s it all about? Not much, next to the LPT

The lack of reaction to the Vat hike on online purchases shows us yet again that when it comes to taxes, we respond primarily by reference to what we last experienced
  • Brian Keegan
  • June 6, 2021

Brian Keegan: How to put the lights back on

There are important tax implications for employers as they prepare for the winding-down of the pandemic supports
  • Brian Keegan
  • May 30, 2021

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