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Finance Bill 2010
04/02/2010
The Finance Bill 2010 is now available for download here, and the explanatory memorandum is available here.
Finance, NTMA and FOI
Nat O'Connor 04/02/2010
Nat O'Connor: The Story (freedom of information blog) offer an insight into why the Minster for Finance transfered powers to the NTMA yesterday: "One …
Lies, damned lies and statistics: car scrappage scheme
An tSaoi 04/02/2010
An Saoi: On Tuesday morning Alan Nolan of the Society of the Irish Motor Industry was on Morning Ireland and made reference to the increase in car …
Where have all the taxes gone?
An tSaoi 02/02/2010
An Saoi: Today’s tax figures were a shock, even to me. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so surprised as the Central Bank’s report for December had …
McCarthy on fiscal correction - advice to Scotland
Slí Eile 02/02/2010
Slí Eile: Never shy to expound, economist Colm McCarthy, of Bord Snip fame imparted wit and neo-liberal orthodoxy last week in Edinburgh. See an …
Greek Tragedy II - and the tax dimension
Michael Burke 02/02/2010
Michael Burke: In today's Financial Times, two economists from the Breugel think-tank in Brussels argue that the best course for Greece is to call in …
Taxbreak hotels
Sinéad Pentony 02/02/2010
Sinéad Pentony: The report by Peter Bacon on the Irish Hotel Industry highlights the sorry state of the industry, which has been insolvent since …
AIB makes case for increased public spending
Peter Connell 02/02/2010
Peter Connell: Encouraging news from AIB. In its Economic Outlook for 2010 published last month the bank agrees with many of those writing on PE on …
...but what kind of capitalism do we want?....
Slí Eile 01/02/2010
Slí Eile: Speaking, last week, at the World Economic Forum (WEF at Davos), French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in big picture mode discussing the …
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