Govt must do more to ensure Ireland remains competitive, watchdog warns
Ireland’s competitiveness watchdog has warned that the Government needs to do more to address significant longstanding challenges to securing the ...
Read More Banks under pressure to improve deposit rates
Pressure was coming to bear on the banks this time last year to offer better returns to depositors against the ...
Read More Number of homes bought by non-household entities falls by almost 10% last year
New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that non-household entities bought a total of 12,201 homes at market prices ...
Read More 9% VAT rate for tourism and hospitality unjustified according to Department of Finance
The Department of Finance believes reinstating the 9% VAT rate for tourism and hospitality businesses remains “unjustified”. In a report ...
Read More Indexing personal tax system would cost €1 billion a year, strategy paper shows
Indexing the entire personal tax system to ensure workers’ rising wages are not eroded by an additional tax burden could ...
Read More Euro zone business growth stalls in July, PMIs show
Growth in euro zone business activity stalled this month as a tepid expansion in the bloc’s dominant services industry failed ...
Read More Revenue fixes problems with online tax return form
Revenue has told accountants and self-assessed taxpayers that it has fixed problems with its online tax return form that were ...
Read More Grocery price inflation edges up in July after 15 months of falls
Grocery inflation in the 12 weeks to July 7 saw a marginal gain after falling for 15 months in a ...
Read More ECB’s de Guindos says new data to help reassess monetary policy stance in September
European Central Bank vice-president Luis de Guindos hinted at a possible interest rate cut in September, singling out the ECB’s ...
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