{"id":374510,"date":"2026-03-31T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374510\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:45:35","slug":"inheritance-tax-how-irelands-political-parties-differ-on-proposal-to-reform-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374510\/","title":{"rendered":"Inheritance tax: How Ireland&#8217;s political parties differ on proposal to reform tax"},"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\">Social Democrats say we can\u2019t reduce taxes as State is \u2018heavily over-reliant on corporation tax receipts\u2019, amid global economic turmoil\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ireland's political parties are divided on inheritance tax thresholds. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/78c27106-3fb5-48b3-849a-c5247fb36cdd.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)\">Ireland&#8217;s political parties are divided on inheritance tax thresholds. Photo: Getty<\/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 Social Democrats have said it would be \u201cirresponsible\u201d to reduce inheritance tax, after Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin said the system needs to be reformed.<\/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)\">Amid renewed debate over the fairness of the inheritance tax system, political parties have outlined their positions after the Fianna F\u00e1il leader said he wanted to see it reformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social Democrats say we can\u2019t reduce taxes as State is \u2018heavily over-reliant on corporation tax receipts\u2019, amid global&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16253,72,71077,895,176,3775,61,5145,60,6189,1843,174,175,70,3415,1419,5066],"class_list":{"0":"post-374510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-aontu","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-conal-thomas","11":"tag-fianna-fail","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-fine-gael","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-inheritance","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-labour-party","18":"tag-micheal-martin","19":"tag-personal-finance","20":"tag-personalfinance","21":"tag-simon-harris","22":"tag-sinn-fein","23":"tag-social-democrats","24":"tag-tax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374510","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=374510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}