Commission on tax - Plan won’t work unless it’s fair

THE Commission on Taxation report and Colm McCarthy’s An Bord Snip Nua report are expected to be the predominant influences on the December budget.

Both have been published and it is almost possible to join the dots and predict – theoretically at least – what may be included in a daunting budget.

There is an expectation that these reports and the December budget might be the catalyst for the beginning of modest economic retrenchment if not a modest recovery.