Stamp duty a bit of good news in all the doom and gloom

IN THE midst of all the doom and gloom, the recession, the IMF, the banks and the budget there was one good news story which got very little attention — at least a lot less than it deserved.

The economists scarcely mentioned it, the newspapers put it well off the headlines and Pat Kenny virtually ignored it.

By now you are probably wondering “what is it”? Its name does not conjure up excitement and misleads the casual reader. It is a boring subject with a nasty reputation.