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A weekly look at business and economics from an Irish perspective hosted by Irish Times Business Editor Ciarán Hancock. Produced in association with EY. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Has the Government’s strategy to keep fuel costs down proved to be ‘knee-jerk’ and difficult to reverse? (opens the original)
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First up on this episode of Inside Business, the issue of fuel costs after the Dáil voted to postpone the restoration of fuel excise duty last Friday. Did they wilt in the face of more potential protests? What is the cumulative impact of taxes, levies, regulations and other fuel-related charges on the cost of transport and home-heating fuels? And with the budget around the corner, should any changes to carbon tax consider both fuel affordability and the climate programmes funded by it? For more
Will the upcoming budget drive inflation and increase costs for Irish households? (opens the original)
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The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council have made their pre-budget submission. They feel the Government’s proposed budgetary package will drive inflation and increase costs for households and firms. The council also warned that current plans would increase reliance on corporation tax receipts, which it considers risky. It also feels more of the corporation tax windfall should be put into the State’s rainy-day funds. For more on this, host Cliff Taylor is joined in studio by Niall Conroy, Ifac’s acting
How many new homes does Ireland really need? (opens the original)
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The Government has introduced 46 tax measures since 2013 to stimulate house building here. Have they worked and do they represent good value for money for taxpayers? To help answer that question Ciaran Hancock is joined by Marian Finnegan, chief executive of Sherry Fitzgerald, Ireland's largest estate agent, and John McCartney, a property economics lecturer in TU Dublin, who spent 20 years working in the commercial property sector. Together they debate a range of questions that are key to Irelan
Should Meta's 'intrusive' smart glasses be banned? (opens the original)
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It's been a busy week for tech giant Meta. Its new glasses have sparked controversy over privacy concerns, while founder Mark Zuckerberg published his AI manifesto, and the company indicated that it might be willing to pay local communities to host data centres in their areas. Irish Times tech expert Ciara O'Brien explains why the glasses have caused such a stir and how Zuckerberg's approach to AI differs. In part two: Ireland's corporation tax receipts are bulging, helped by the increase in the
Are middle earners getting gouged by the tax system here? (opens the original)
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In a column last week, Cliff Taylor posed the question as to whether middle earners are being ripped off by the Irish income tax system. And with no income tax package introduced in 2026, that meant the real tax burden has increased this year. Minister for Finance Simon Harris has signalled that tax cuts are coming in the budget targeted at middle income earners, but does that require difficult political trade-offs? Cliff joins host Ciarán Hancock in studio to give his view. Plus, in a hard-hitt
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