{"id":214206,"date":"2025-12-28T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214206\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:52:09","slug":"finance-minister-simon-harris-signals-return-of-tax-cuts-after-backlash-over-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214206\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Simon Harris signals return of tax cuts after backlash over budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018We want money from hard work going to families, not to the taxman,\u2019 says T\u00e1naiste\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"T\u00e1naiste and Finance Minister Simon Harris said he wants hard workers to have more money in their pockets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nd Structural Plan7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">T\u00e1naiste and Finance Minister Simon Harris said he wants hard workers to have more money in their pockets<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tax cuts for workers will be back on the table for the next four years if public finances remain stable, T\u00e1naiste and Finance Minister Simon Harris has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Government came in for sustained criticism after a deeply unpopular budget by the Coalition in October, which featured no cost-of-living measures to help most households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018We want money from hard work going to families, not to the taxman,\u2019 says T\u00e1naiste T\u00e1naiste and Finance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5244,71077,3775,61,60,1843,43,774,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-214206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-budget-2026","9":"tag-conal-thomas","10":"tag-fine-gael","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-micheal-martin","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-paschal-donohoe","16":"tag-simon-harris"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}