Weekly Digest Budget Special: All today's tax changes and what Budget 2025 means for you

Weekly Digest Budget Special: All today's tax changes and what Budget 2025 means for you

Budget 2025 was announced today in the Dáil - here's our best coverage to help you figure out what the €1.4bn in tax cuts and €6.9bn in new spending means for you.

Budget 2025: social welfare hikes, ‘mansion tax’ and cheaper car insurance, here’s everything you need to know

The coalition has made its multi-billion-euro pitch to voters ahead of the general election with an €8.3bn Budget.

Included in the raft of measures is an increase in the entry point for the higher rate of tax, a number of hikes in social welfare payments and a series of once-off payments to deal with the cost of living.

All the income tax changes from today’s Budget

A range of tax changes and one-off measures announced in the Budget should leave most people better off.

Key Dates: When will double Child Benefit land, when will fuel and cigarettes rise?

Some of the changes announced today - like the increase in cigarette prices - will kick in almost immediately. Others, such as the increase to the minimum wage, won't start until January.


A photo of ministers Jack Chambers and Paschal Donohoe holding up Budget folders

Calculator: Find out exactly how much the tax changes will affect your take-home pay

Use this Budget calculator to figure out where the increase to tax credits, cut to USC and changes to where the higher PAYE rate kicks in leaves you.

Analysis: Morally bankrupt, fiscally amnesiac and nakedly political – Budget 2025 has more money than sense in attempt to buy election

In the absence of an adult in the room, writes Fionnán Sheahan, we got 15 Cabinet ministers acting like kids in a sweet shop, looking for the sugar rush ahead of the general election where the voters will be bought off with their own money. There was so much cash going around that nobody could lose. The only surprise is that nobody proposed a compensation scheme for fans who bought Oasis tickets.

Live coverage of the day: How it unfolded in the Dáil

Here's how the speeches unfolded and how opposition and government TDs discussed it afterwards in Dáil éireann.

Analysis: How Budget 2025 affects your age group, from twenty-somethings to retirees

Sinead Ryan takes a look at how this year's Budget affects each age group, from 20s up.

What would the opposition parties have given you in Budget 2025 if they were in government?

As the government unveiled their Budget 2025 plans, opposition parties also put forward their alternative budgets. Here's what was in them.


Bernard Mclarnon

Civils General Foreman at Mac Creagh Construction

1 个月

Middle Class left behind again child poverty sick children and the children hospital will not operate to 2028;

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