Kieran Coughlan: Budget 2017 wish list includes farm income management tool

Next Tuesday, some of our financial destiny shall be revealed with much pomp, ceremony, and analysis, in the Budget.

Budgets have become a bit boring side over the past four or five years, with very few novel announcements, leaving the average Joe trundling along with fairly modest tax cuts.

It was only in the 2015 and 2016 budgets that an average PAYE worker, earning €35,000, saw any positive movement in their take home pay (the accompanying table shows how the tax system has remained relatively static for PAYE workers).