Taoiseach Simon Harris faces accusations of electioneering as his government announces a substantial Budget 2025, laden with lump sum payments and tax cuts just weeks before the potential general election.
Budget 2025: With the ink barely dry, the Fine Gael leader will gather his general election candidates in Dublin on Wednesday morning
“You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out the rationale behind all of this,” Social Democrats TD Róisín Shortall said. Indeed.Budget 2025 calculator: How this year’s budget will affect your incomeBudget 2025: Do you have a budget question you’d like answered? Instead of just one month of a double child benefit payment, there will be two – one in November, one in December. The same goes for welfare payments, with a double payment in October and a Christmas bonus a few weeks later. The cost of both these “double doubles” is nearly a billion euro.
The only real surprise yesterday was the introduction of the so-called mansion tax – a 6 per cent stamp duty rate applying to the portion of sale prices above €1.5 million.
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