Economic Incentives
Shining a small light on economic reality.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Reciprocal Tariffs; My Eye – and how it might even have been 42% for Ireland
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The Trump administration has announced “reciprocal tariffs” on practically every country in the world, bar Russia, North Korea, and a few ot...
Monday, February 10, 2025
Ireland’s Inequality of Market Income moves towards OECD average
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One of the notable features of the distribution of income in Ireland in the decade after the crash of 2008 was the unusually high level of i...
Friday, January 10, 2025
CT disappoints–but only relative to elevated expectations
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When Budget2024 was published back in October 2023, the forecast was for €24.5 billion of Corporation Tax to be collected in 2024. The rece...
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Corporation Tax motors along - even if the state-aid payments muddy the waters
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Corporation Tax revenues continue to motor though with some minor bumps in the road. An issue in recent months is that the underlying chang...
Friday, October 25, 2024
Decline in FTB purchases of existing dwellings
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Recent months have seen a decline in the volume of purchases of existing dwellings by first-time buyers (FTBs). The volume of FTB purchases...
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