Brian Keegan: Next year could be our last chance to boost incentives for Irish firms before global tax hikes

The policy reset of a 15% rate of corporation tax must be matched with a policy reset in favour of the services sector

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and Minster for Public Expenditure and Reform Michael McGrath at the Department of Finance earlier this month signing off on Budget 2022. Picture: Moya Nolan

The publication last Thursday of the Finance Bill went virtually unnoticed because of the disruption to the plans to ease Covid restrictions. 

The annual Finance Bill sets out in law the budget statement of the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform presented on Budget Day in the previous week.