Governance and inauditability under scrutiny

Progressivism reverts to regressivism, but mainly inertia

There is friction in Cabinet between Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe who is generally reassuringly sceptical of new tax expenditures for developers and prefers targeted, time-limited or “activation” taxes; Fianna Fáil can’t help itself from championing subsidies/reliefs alongside state delivery.Meanwhile VAT on apartments is to be cut to 9% and the Help to Buy scheme extended. It’s all utterly unradical in the fact of a recognised crisis of quantity and an untold crisis of quality.

Government will tweak
income-tax bands again
in October, but don’t
expect pole-dancing and
it will quietly take a little
back is PRSI