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Revenue extends enhanced EWSS supports for businesses affected by Christmas restrictions

Restaurants forced to close at 8pm and live venues that were subject to reduced capacity are among eligible businesses to receive supports until end of May 2022
  • Eva Short
  • February 3, 2022

More than €50 million in wage subsidies recouped through inspections

The Revenue enforcement measures returned €31.5 million in Temporary Wage Subsidy Scheme and €19.2 million in Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme to the state
  • Sarah Taaffe-Maguire
  • January 25, 2022

Paschal Donohoe: Time to gently remove the crutch of pandemic supports

The finance minister outlines why the government is phasing out the measures that have propped up businesses over the last two years
  • Paschal Donohoe
  • January 23, 2022

€348 million in Covid-19 business supports repaid to Revenue

The government announced the resumption and reopening of supports for businesses in December
  • Sarah Taaffe-Maguire
  • January 18, 2022

Data on insurers’ payout deductions won’t be published this year

Government has come under renewed pressure to recoup millions of euro deducted by insurance firms from Covid-19 compensation
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 16, 2022

Fleming to examine if British insurers’ pledge can be replicated in Ireland

Junior minister has contacted UK counterpart to learn if commitment given by insurers not to strip value of pandemic-related state supports from awards can be applied here
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 12, 2022

Insurers asked to repay state money they deducted from awards to pandemic-hit firms

Junior minister ‘hopes’ insurers give the money back but admitted the government has no means of enforcing that request
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 10, 2022

Taxpayers lose as insurers keep millions in state funds cut from Covid payouts

Government abandons promise to pursue firms for the value of any deductions made
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 9, 2022

Revenue deploys ‘real-time’ info to claw back €105m in wage subsidies

The organisation is using its online PAYE system to receive electronic updates whenever a new wage payment is made by employers to workers
  • Michael Brennan
  • January 9, 2022

Ibec warns close-contact rules could ‘cripple’ businesses as new state supports announced

Business lobby group calls for review of the rules around close contacts and cautiously welcomes expansion of Covid supports to hospitality sector
  • Donal MacNamee
  • December 21, 2021

The Last Post: Pandemic profits: it seems we are not all in this together

Many companies that received Covid-19 subsidies from the state performed far better during the crisis than they anticipated. Some gave the money back; those who didn’t should do so without delay
  • Matt Cooper
  • December 19, 2021

Ministers to discuss renewing Covid supports for hospitality sector

Cabinet sub-committee meets tomorrow to tackle thorny issue of how to shore up industry hit hardest by latest restrictions
  • Michael Brennan
  • November 21, 2021

Pandemic having significant impact on solicitor firms’ operations and finance

A survey of 534 managing partners and principal solicitors found 74 per cent of businesses availed of government supports
  • Sarah Taaffe-Maguire
  • November 17, 2021

Business groups welcome decision to extend Covid-19 supports

Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme to remain in place until April 2022
  • Lorcan Allen
  • October 12, 2021

Ian Guider: We can’t afford to delay the inevitable on state supports

The extensive pandemic payments were necessary to keep firms afloat, but now we need to look at the new normal – and which businesses might not survive it
  • Ian Guider
  • August 15, 2021

Businesses in EWSS may face PRSI hike

The government has flagged possible changes to the wage subsidy scheme in October
  • Daniel Murray
  • July 4, 2021

More state debt needed to fund PUP past June, says Varadkar

Tánaiste tells Fine Gael TDs that the government needs to borrow more money to pay for further extensions to the pandemic supports
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 4, 2021

Tom Maguire: Keep your tax returns up to date – or it may cost more than you think

The Revenue’s Debt Warehousing Scheme allows businesses to temporarily put certain tax debts on ice while trade is affected by Covid-19. But it has warned that 4,500 firms are not ‘current’ with filing
  • Tom Maguire
  • March 14, 2021

State should buffer private childcare, says Ibec executive

Darragh Whelan, director of Childhood Services Ireland, says government has no desire to move to public model for the sector
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 31, 2021

Varadkar pledges to help firms locked out of Covid-19 supports

State also plans to provide new supports for businesses not covered by existing schemes
  • Daniel Murrayand
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • January 24, 2021

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