{"id":397563,"date":"2026-03-22T03:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/397563\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:15:10","slug":"state-takes-in-record-e1bn-inheritance-tax-as-taoiseach-micheal-martin-pledges-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/397563\/","title":{"rendered":"State takes in record \u20ac1bn inheritance tax as Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin pledges reform"},"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\">\u2018Favourite\u2019 nieces and nephews stand to gain, as Martin says current rules are discriminatory\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774149310_871_video.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)\">Taoiseach says inheritance tax reforms are needed as receipts hit record \u20ac1bn last year<\/p>\n<p>Wayne O&#8217;Connor &amp; C\u00f3nal Thomas<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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 Taoiseach wants to see the inheritance tax system reformed, with new figures showing the State took in a record \u20ac1.121bn from it and gift tax revenue last year.<\/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)\">A spokesman for Miche\u00e1l Martin said he believes the current rules mean some people are \u201cunduly penalised\u201d and the existing tax thresholds \u201cdon\u2019t reflect the modern reality for many families today\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Favourite\u2019 nieces and nephews stand to gain, as Martin says current rules are discriminatory Taoiseach says inheritance tax&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,92909,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,1267,44,4520,7,8,4892],"class_list":["post-397563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-conal-thomas","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-property-mortgages","tag-simon-harris","tag-tax","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wayne-oconnor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116270656621589966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}