Brian Keegan: The Tax Take

When it comes to tax policy, the sense of risk at political level is constant

Minister for finance Michael Noonan will deliver his budget in October

Annual budgets attract strings of proposals from politicians, public interest and lobby groups, self-serving to varying degrees, for changes to this tax relief or that tax incentive.

Left-wing groups are predictably renewing their calls for more taxation and more social services (as long as their adherents are not the ones paying the additional taxes) and right-wing groups will be calling for more incentives to stimulate business and growth (as long as their adherents ...