The Irish Times website, www.Ireland.com, will host a question and answer session on Budget 2001 from 10 a.m. today.
Tax experts from PricewaterhouseCoopers and specialist journalists from The Irish Times will answer your questions on how the Budget measures will effect you. To put your questions click on to the home page of the Budget site by entering www.Ireland.com/special/budget/2001. You will be guided to the box where you can type in your questions.
On hand to reply will be tax experts Ms Anne Bolster and Mr Gavin Duffy from PricewaterhouseCoopers, and from The Irish Times, Investment editor Ms Mary Canniffe and Economics Correspondent Ms Jane Suiter.
Ms Bolster is a tax manager with the Global HR Solutions Group at PwC. A certified public accountant, she joined PwC in 1998 after a number of years with the Revenue Commissioners. She specialises in personal and expatriate taxation. Mr Duffy is a tax manager at PwC and an associate of The Institute of Taxation. He joined PwC in 1996 and specialises in expatriate taxation. On the Website today, a tax calculator developed in association with PwC can be used to work out the impact of the Budget 2001 measures on monthly take-home pay. Users can vote on the Budget Poll and air their opinions on the measures in the web discussion forum.
In the afternoon the web will host a live round table discussion of the Budget with Irish Times journalists.
Throughout the day the site will broadcast breaking news and the reactions of special interest and lobby groups.