Paul Hosford: Tax Strategy Group papers an interesting stop on road to October budget

In 10 volumes of discussion, there is plenty for this and future governments to consider, writes Political Correspondent Paul Hosford

The Department of Finance releases a swathe of research from its Tax Strategy Group which deliberates each year on the costs and gains to the exchequer from potential tax changes on budget day.

There are only two certainties in life, wrote Benjamin Franklin — death and taxes.

While the bifocal-wearing, hardened glass-harmonica-playing polymathic founding father of the US was pithy, he probably never accounted for another certainty — rows in Irish coalition governments about how to spend money.