The Irish Times's website, www.ireland.com, is carrying comprehensive coverage of this year's Budget throughout the week at its dedicated Budget 2001 website, www.ireland.com/special/budget/2001/. The site will deliver updates of the key changes in the Budget as they are announced by the Minister for Finance Mr McCreevy tomorrow, followed by extensive post-Budget analysis.

The site contains pre-Budget news coverage, a breakdown of the Book of Estimates and preBudget submissions from some of Ireland's main unions, business associations and social interest groups, in addition to online polls and discussion forums. Tomorrow the site will carry a live video stream of Mr McCreevy's speech and the responses from the Opposition. The main points of the Budget will be on the site as they are announced. Audio news bulletins will cover the highlights of the Budget speech and the Minister's full script will be available immediately after he ends his Dail address.

An online tax calculator, developed in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers, will be on the website and will allow users to assess immediately what impact the budgetary changes will have on their monthly pay packets. After answering questions about income, marital status and expenditure on the "old reliables" of alcohol, cigarettes and petrol, the calculator will be able to work out how much users stand to gain or lose from Budget 2001.

On Thursday, Jane Suiter, Economics Correspondent and Mary Canniffe, Investment Editor of The Irish Times, along with tax experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers will be available to answer your Budget queries online. An area of the site offers users the chance to submit questions to the experts when the budgetary figures for 2001 are released.