Start-up tsar confident of enterprise tax overhaul

Niamh Bushnell believes government will introduce changes in Budget 2016

Niamh Bushnell, Dublin’s start-up commissioner. Picture: Feargal Ward

Dublin’s start-up commissioner, Niamh Bushnell, has said she is confident that the government will introduce changes in Budget 2016 to overhaul the entrepreneurial tax system and unlock private angel funding for early stage start-ups.

Speaking in Tel Aviv last week at the DLD Innovation Conference, she said: “The unofficial noises back home are that the department is on the same page and they hear us.

“My understanding is that any changes will have ...