{"id":233822,"date":"2026-01-08T07:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233822\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:37:16","slug":"irelands-record-tax-take-makes-light-of-trump-tariffs-fear-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/233822\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s record tax take makes light of Trump tariffs fear \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">2025 has proved to be a record year for tax receipt figures, with the total hitting \u20ac106bn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">This was despite extensive warnings about the State\u2019s precarious position due to Donald Trump\u2019s series of tariffs, and the number of big multinationals that use Ireland as an export base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">It was another bumper year for corporation tax receipts as they exceeded expectations, but perhaps the non-corporation tax take offers the clearest insight into how Ireland\u2019s economic growth will progress as we start 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">For analysis of the numbers, host Cliff Taylor is joined in studio by chief economist at Davy, Kevin Timoney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Also on this week\u2019s Inside Business, we look at how new EV sales increased last year to overtake diesel, a massive turnaround from 2023 and 2024, which saw EV sales plummet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Will this trend continue? Can charging infrastructure start to meet demand? And what\u2019s being done to increase road safety? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Irish Times Motoring Editor Michael McAleer gives his take on the trends hitting Irish roads in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Produced by John Casey with JJ Vernon on sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 has proved to be a record year for tax receipt figures, with the total hitting \u20ac106bn. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,24463,113,8856,61,60,11318,1963],"class_list":["post-233822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-corporation-tax","tag-economy","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-road-safety","tag-us-tariffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233822","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=233822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}