Finance minister Paschal Donohoe has ruled out personal tax cuts in the budget, a decision sure to cause controversy

Lower student fees and rise in income thresholds for grants remain on table with talks going to wire

Corporate tax take is forecast to climb to €34.1bn and income tax receipts to exceed €39bn

Tax changes in recent budgets have kept pace with inflation but that may not be the case this year

A budget VAT boost for hospitality and limited cuts for taxpayers will be a tough sell - this will cause big problems for the Coalition

A smaller tax package and no cost-of-living payments will mean much fewer gains for households

Publishing a spending 'framework' with no targets and no view of how things should develop over the next few years begs the question of whether the Coalition is serious

Energy credits and double child benefit weeks are gone - but the Government will try to soften the blow

Official Ireland, it seems, is in a bind: in favour of free trade, but only if it doesn’t upset anybody

For first-time buyers, the costs of taking on a home needing lots of work can often be just too much

Many high earners spend to match their income and now there are signs of nervousness as Trump targets tech sector

Nvidia results this week perfectly illustrate the meeting of AI hope and political uncertainty

At the centre of the debate will be whether the Budget 2026 should include a cost of living package

Agreed statement between the EU and US gives a firm commitment to cap pharma tariffs at 15%, while some parts of the sector may be excluded altogether

Authors said Ireland’s data was ‘polluted by tax arbitrage’