Economic Incentives

Ireland is set to leave the Excessive Deficit Procedure next year.  This is the “corrective arm” of our fiscal rules and is based on bringin...

Figures from the Exchequer Statements show that the Exchequer Balance has improved in each of the past four years. However, for the year...

The debate around October’s budget has been heightened recently with the positive results in the half-year Exchequer Returns and the large ...

The CSO have published the 2013 National Income and Expenditure Accounts along with this explanatory note highlighting the impact of s...

The successful issue by the NTMA of another 10-year bond is a further small step to normality for our public finances.  They are a long way...

The level of the ‘adjustment package’ in last week’s budget has created some confusion .  The basic sum involves the €1.85 billion of new me...

Back in April the Department of Finance published the 2013 Stability Programme Update .  In it the projected general government deficit for ...

The issue of Ireland’s corporation tax continues to generate lots of debate.  Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is also open to de...

The White Paper with the Estimates of Receipts and Expenditure released at midnight last night shows that in a “do nothing” scenario the De...

The repeated calls of what should be done with the Promissory Note “savings” is likely why we have seem the Minister for Finance try to pu...

The upcoming budget is set to be framed around a general government deficit limit of 5.1% of GDP for 2014.  This was set as part of the EU’s...

Lots of talk about a “legacy of debt” in response to yesterday’s re-arranging of the Promissory Notes/ELA framework.  First up, governments ...

A recent post over on Notesonthefront has attracted a lot of attention on “the cost of the banking crisis”.  The figures from Eurostat sho...

A new dataset from Eurostat has received a lot of attention recently as it highlights the deficit costs of the bailout of our banking syste...