Charlie Mccreevy
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Ibec calls for new SSIA-type savings scheme
- Economy
- February 26, 2019, 11:46
Employers’ group Ibec has called for a new SSIA-type savings scheme to allow households benefiting from economic growth to save more. Chief executive(...)

Will I make a profit on the Greencore share buyback?
- Personal Finance
- January 26, 2019, 05:50
I am a small Greencore holder dating back to post Irish Sugar privatisation in December 1991. I find the current offer very confusing and much of the (...)

Fianna Fáil more in line with Labour than Fine Gael, says Howlin
- Irish News
- January 7, 2019, 01:00
Fianna Fáil has a policy platform that is more in line with what Labour wants to achieve if it re-enters government than Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s Fine(...)

Revenue opts not to appeal court ruling on dwelling house relief
- Personal Finance
- January 3, 2019, 00:50
Revenue has decided not to appeal a High Court judgment that allows people to inherit the family home without paying tax, even if they also inherit ot(...)

Single, married or cohabiting: Who pays the least tax?
- Personal Finance
- December 11, 2018, 05:06
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fortune must be in want of a wife. Or at least he should be, if he wants to(...)

Is the Government going for broke again?
- Economy
- November 30, 2018, 05:40
At the height of the financial crisis in 2009, the State was spending €23 billion more than it was taking in by way of taxes and other income. That am(...)

Cuts to rate of capital gains tax on way in coming years, suggests Taoiseach
- Irish News
- November 23, 2018, 02:00
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has committed Fine Gael to further tax cuts, on top of a number of already promised reductions over the coming years, by flaggi(...)

Falling short of dwelling house exemption
- Personal Finance
- October 30, 2018, 05:50
I am to inherit a property. Although I don’t own any other property and I will use the property as my main residence for more than three years after I(...)

Facing a CGT bill for house inherited from father back in 1993
- Personal Finance
- October 22, 2018, 16:30
Our father died in 1993 without making a will. His only asset was the family home, a small, council-built house. As such, all seven children were enti(...)

Steady as she goes: Budget 2019 dodges the landmines
- Opinion
- October 10, 2018, 01:00
First, do no harm. Any finance minister should heed the primary precept of the Hippocratic oath, and ensure that their fiscal and economic prescriptio(...)