Economic Incentives

A few weeks ago, the CSO published the Q2 2023 update of the non-financial institutional sector accounts . We will use those to check in on ...

In recent years when looking at the annual update from the Revenue Commissioners of the aggregate corporate tax calculation we noted that t...

We all like looking to the past for evidence and pointers to help understand the present.  A deterioration in the current of the balance of ...

We have been tracking the impact in Ireland’s national accounts of the structures of US MNCs for some time.  In recent years, many of those ...

A couple of years ago we asked “does Ireland have the lowest per capita consumption of housing in the EU15?”   As the title to this post sug...

The last post used the sector accounts to give the steps that led to there being €166 billion of gross national savings in 2021. Here we w...

Over the past week the CSO have published further insights into the 2021 Annual National Accounts with additional tables on disposable incom...

Ireland’s surging revenues from Corporation Tax are evident in the Institutional Sector Accounts which are now available for the second quar...

The CSO have published the Q2 2022 update of the institutional sector accounts.  They continue to show a strong performance for the househol...

The current account of the balance of payments is an important macro-economic indicator. For a variety of reasons Ireland’s headline current...

The current account of the balance of payments is an important macroeconomic indicator.  As with many of Ireland’s macroeconomic statistics ...

Ireland’s national balance sheet has gross amounts and a volatility that is not seen in the figures for most other countries.  The gross amo...