A decision on whether to reform the so-called flat-rate expenses regime for a wide range of workers, including bus drivers, bricklayers, cooks, and nurses, has been deferred by Revenue.

Food supplements — with a range of exceptions — will, after all, be taxed at the rate of 13.5% for Vat, the Department of Finance has said, a move that has surprised industry groups that had long campaigned against removing their zero-rated tax benefits.

The problem at the heart of Extinction Rebellion is that we are rebelling against ourselves.

It is interesting to observe the discussion around climate change in this country.

It is interesting to observe the discussion around climate change in this country.

The Department of Finance's Tax Strategy Group is advising Minister Paschal Donohoe to radically change motor tax to clamp down on emissions from diesel and petrol vehicles.

Tourism has the potential to create 80,000 new jobs in the next six years but a "worrying drift" in Government focus threatens the growth, an industry organisation has claimed.

An organisation which represents more than 3,000 retailers is demanding that the Government provides increased resources to Customs units to crack down on cigarette smuggling, and also support a bill which provides on-the-spot fines for those who purchase illicit tobacco, alcohol, and solid fuel.

IT seems an entirely appropriate conjunction; a neat fit in the way these things sometimes fall. Just as more than a century of American hegemony is being challenged, the death knell of the internal combustion engine is ringing ever louder.

The cost to the exchequer of the reduced 9% Vat level on tourism and related services since its introduction six years ago is now running at over €2.2bn and increasing the tax back to 13.5% would raise an extra €491m a year for the Government.

The country’s main tourism industry group has warned any UK recession sparked by the Brexit vote will inevitably directly hit Ireland as it urged the Government to make the reduced Vat rate tax an untouchable part of the tax code here.

THE drinks industry lobbied the Government ahead of last December’s budget to reduce the tax on alcohol, the Tax Strategy Group papers reveal.

THE Revenue Commissioners will have to refund a significant portion of the €750 million collected annually in Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT) if a legal challenge on export rebates is successful, it has emerged.

INVESTORS in Irish shares bear the brunt of the State’s annual 1.2 billion stamp duty haul, paying 28.75% of the duty compared to 22% paid by property purchasers.