{"id":64784,"date":"2025-10-07T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64784\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:56:08","slug":"when-i-started-advising-clients-we-paid-20pc-on-investment-growth-today-we-are-paying-41pc-eoin-mcgee-on-what-hed-like-to-see-in-budget-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64784\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018When I started advising clients we paid 20pc on investment growth, today we are paying 41pc\u2019 \u2013 Eoin McGee on what he\u2019d like to see in Budget 2026"},"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\">With over \u20ac150bn sitting on deposit in Irish banks right now, we need to make investing a more attractive option\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Irish tax system discourages people from investing. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/84546bba-dc8c-4752-bfd4-8c44a4e742c2.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)\">The Irish tax system discourages people from investing. 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)\">Like Christmas, as you get older, budgets are less exciting because we have less surprises.<\/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)\">But still each year I look forward to how the cake is going to be sliced, what interests are going to be looked after, how we are going to prepare ourselves financially for the future and what steps will we take to make sure the less well-off and disadvantaged are protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With over \u20ac150bn sitting on deposit in Irish banks right now, we need to make investing a more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5244,72,61,60],"class_list":["post-64784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-budget-2026","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64784","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=64784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}