Taioseach plays down budgetary watchdog's concerns over government's reliance on corporation taxes

Any sudden drop-off in booming corporation tax receipts could be replaced by rising home and office stamp duty taxes, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has suggested.

Budgetary watchdog, IFAC, today warned that the Government is over reliant on corporation taxes, which have doubled since 2014 to more than €10bn.