University of Southern California

There has been almost no overall inflation in prices in the Irish economy in recent years. And wages are rising. So how come many – particularly in yo(...)

An increase in the income level at which earners become liable to the higher 40 per cent income tax rate, and more tax relief for the self-employed, n(...)

British prime minister Theresa May said US president Donald Trump had previously advised her to sue the European Union as part of her Brexit strategy,(...)

This week’s publication of bumper corporation-tax receipts reflects largely increased income from multinational companies. It comes hot on the heels o(...)

How do so many people in Ireland escape the income tax net entirely? Because recent budgets have made sure that this was the case, that’s how. The l(...)

How do so many people in Ireland escape the income tax net entirely? Because recent budgets have made sure that this was the case, that’s how. Durin(...)

Can the so-called squeezed middle expect any significant “unsqueezing” in Budget 2019? Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has promised they will ben(...)

The Government has made a few efforts to play down expectations about the October budget. But without much success, it would appear. The post-Easter t(...)

In France a woman dies at the hands of her live-in partner every two and a half days, a shocking statistic that, depressingly, doesn’t include related(...)

Automated accounts – “bots” – on Twitter are responsible for spreading two-thirds of tweeted links to digital content, the Pew Research Centre has fou(...)