The Tax Take

Budget 2017 should have been more proactive as the countdown to Brexit begins

A missed opportunity

Ireland must be unique in the way we respond to the most important event of the year for tax policy: the budget. In other countries, tax issues don’t receive anything like the same level of attention as they do here, and usually the political debate is polarised in left-wing/right-wing terms.

In this country, the debate about tax tends to be polarised in sectoral terms: employer versus employee, employee versus pensioner, ...