By tilting to the right, Simon Harris wants to undercut the temptation of more radical votes. There will be help for farmers and small businesses but to really address voter anger, the new taoiseach will need to confront housing.
Changes to Apple’s tax structure have skewed short-term Exchequer figures for three years but multinationals are again lining up large taxable profits in Ireland in 2024.
It is many years since the country’s economic indicators have looked so well and the new Taoiseach will have a lot of tailwinds going his way. How should he use them?
Progress is part of the narrative that politicians use to gain power. When they share data which shows that things have been getting better people’s anxieties about the world decrease. But for some reason, politicians are not doing enough of this.
The Irish economy contracted in 2023. Did you feel it? Very likely you didn’t. Why is that? More importantly, what should we do about it? We should innovate.
The country is in good shape. We’re better off than most of the nations around us and many aspects of our lives and businesses are the envy of our European neighbours. We’ve never had it so good, but we can still make a mess of it.
The 27 are opening EU membership talks with Kyiv and extending €50bn in aid to Ukraine. Both sides must now deal with long-running protectionist interests. Thomas Hubert reports from Brussels.
Prices, interest rates, profits and wages are re-aligning before our eyes. As always in cases of high volatility, there will be winners and losers.
The future path of inflation is extremely difficult to forecast. Businesses are going to have to adapt to a new regime and wages are going to have to rise. We are facing a year of distributional discontent.
A strong showing by the US software multinational in December helped maintain annual growth in corporation tax receipts.
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