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Business Today |
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Sunday, 29 March, 2026 | | |
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Editor's Note |
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Good morning, reader |
Kicking off budget submission season - which seems to arrive earlier each year - Deloitte is urging the Government to prioritise housing and infrastructure as it prepares its 2027 tax and spending package. The Big Four firm has warned that delays to the construction of housing and upgrades of key infrastructure will hinder Irish economic growth and create more costly problems in the future.
On the subject of spending plans, the Government has indicated that a new savings investment account (SIA) scheme will be unveiled on budget day later this year. In advance of that, Financial Services Ireland has recommended, among other things, that no Capital Gains Tax or income tax should be levied against investors looking to enter or exit the scheme.
For her latest FT column, Pilita Clark takes a look at Jolted, the new book from the US academic who coined the term “the Great Resignation” to describe the phenomenon of people abruptly quitting their jobs after the Covid-19 pandemic. The book, she finds, makes the simple but not very obvious case that one of the most under-acknowledged realities of working life is that quitting is often triggered by a single incident, or jolt.
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