Varadkar proposes new income tax rate amid fears price rises could last two years

Some 200 complaints have been received by the CCPC about fuel pricing in the past fortnight.

The Tánaiste has floated a new middle rate of income tax as he warned that high inflation could go on for another two years.

Leo Varadkar has asked Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe to examine a 30% rate of income tax in a bid to help ease the rising cost of living for middle-income earners.