Journalist @independent_ie Presenter-The Home Show- @NewstalkFM 5pm Saturday. Royal stuff. https://xitter.cf/t.co/vvPAga4x8c

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Joined November 2009
So: messy tax levels ... CAT 33% DDT 35% CGT 31%
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No change to student contribution but tax relief on spend over €2500. #budget2027
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Corection: reduction in student contribution to €2350 per student. Tax cap aligned.
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New personal investment account will allow max contribution of €12k per year. First 50k in fund tax free. 1% flat tax on excess. Disappointing contribution level but good level of tax free benefits. Starts 1 July 2027 #budget2027
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New Irish Investment Account calc: Put in 12k pa x 4 years = 48k Make 60k (12k profit)*. Pay 1% over 50k = €100. No other taxes. Good deal. Not as good as a pension. *inc fees/charges from providers.
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Carbon tax paused for remainder of Govt. Kerosene & gasoil reduced back to 2023 levels from €63.50 pt to €48.50 pt.
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Chambers up now. Expecting €10pw for social welfare & expansion for carers.
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Cigarettes up €1. Vapes 20c/mil
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@sinead_ryan retweeted
The standard rate of capital gains tax is to be reduced from 33% to 31%. #Budget2027
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Vehicle Registration Tax relief for electric vehicles will be extended for another two years until December 31st, 2028. But VRT will increase by 1 per cent on cars in bands 3 to 20 #budget2027
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Small upward tweak to Inheritance tax thresholds. 420k, 44k, 22k for Categories A-C Tax remains at 33% #budget2027
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Budget day prep. I'll be on @Independent_ie for the day.
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Big man. Feel better?
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If the words "colourful life" applied to anyone it was Archer. A brilliant storyteller.
Jeffrey Archer, the prolific novelist and former Conservative politician, has died at the age of 86 Archer died on the eve of publication of what he said would be his final novel, Adam and Eve, which he had been due to discuss this Saturday at the Cheltenham Literature Festival His death marks the end of an especially eventful career for the politician turned novelist, who served a jail term for ​perjury and perverting the course of justice Jeffrey Archer, novelist and Conservative politician, dies aged 86 thetimes.com/article/7e06241…
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Replying to @Independent_ie
Heartbreaking and so familiar. There is a role for medical advocates to be available to patients and families in real time @sinead_ryan heartbreaking
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Isn't there something utterly warped about a society which attempts to kill a prisoner twice, fails both times, only to keep her alive in hospital so they can give it another go ...
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This photo should win the Pulitzer.
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In a chaotic, angry world, we never needed @GBBOUK as much as this year ... and NIGELLA!!!! 🎂🧁🥮
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Morgan may end up getting the Spencer book recalled. This was easy stuff to check and essential for a 'historian'.
BREAKING NEWS: Earl Spencer has apologised to me for his defamatory lies published in his new book, Swan Song, published today. But I am pursuing legal action against him and his publisher Penguin to have the lies removed, and damages paid to the King’s Trust.
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