Brian Keegan: The Tax Take
It feels like we are in a bygone era, but next month’s Vat receipts will be the true test of recovery
Back to the future
It may be January 2016, but somehow the business news last week felt like it belonged to a different decade. Tax revenues rose by 10.5 per cent in 2015; unemployment is reported to be at its lowest rate in seven years; firms supported by Enterprise Ireland added 10,000 new staff and the IDA claimed a new benchmark figure of 187,000 for FDI jobs.
This is pre-recession stuff, the material ...
