{"id":356244,"date":"2026-03-20T14:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:31:09","slug":"tax-breaks-for-tech-talent-may-be-needed-to-secure-irelands-future-growth-says-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356244\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax breaks for \u2018tech talent\u2019 may be needed to secure Ireland\u2019s future growth, says new report"},"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\">Report was commissioned by Collison brothers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick and John Collison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1d730bc0-ae1f-4ced-836d-64ae5efafc89.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)\">Patrick and John Collison<\/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)\">Ireland should consider using personal tax policy to attract tech \u201csuperstars\u201d and entrepreneurs from abroad to set up here, just as tax breaks were used to lure multinationals, according to a report by former government adviser Alan Ahearne commissioned by the billionaire Collison brothers.<\/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)\">Prof Ahearne said there is an emerging \u201cwar for talent\u201d with the potential to shape economic development and living standards, just as Ireland\u2019s established reliance on attracting multinationals is becoming more challenging, due to wider global shifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Report was commissioned by Collison brothers Patrick and John Collison Ireland should consider using personal tax policy to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14486,61,60,5461,1843,43,63762,119700,5066,251,5761],"class_list":["post-356244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-donal-odonovan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jd-vance","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-stripe-company","tag-tax","tag-technology-news","tag-university-of-galway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356244","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=356244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}