{"id":322126,"date":"2025-08-06T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322126\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:19:13","slug":"ireland-is-a-low-tax-low-spend-economy-relative-to-eu-peers-due-to-young-population-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322126\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland is a low tax, low spend economy relative to EU peers due to young population \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ireland is a relatively low-tax, low-spend country compared to its European peers, making it economically closer to Boston than Berlin<\/b><\/a>, but this is driven, not by ideology, but by demographics, according to a new report by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. Eoin Burke-Kennedy has the details. <\/p>\n

Does Gen Z (born between 1997 and 2012) think differently about money? Joanne Hunt explores this issue<\/b><\/a> in her weekly Money Matters column. If you\u2019d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances try signing up to On the Money<\/a>, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which will be issued every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.<\/p>\n

Billionaire businessman Dermot Desmond says we should scrap MetroLink<\/b><\/a> and look to AI to deliver a solution to our public transport issues in Dublin. Is he right? John McManus gives his verdict. <\/p>\n

Estate agent CBRE<\/b><\/a> has brought an almost one-acre site in Cork city centre, suitable for residential or hotel development, to the market with a guide price of \u20ac4.5 million. Colin Gleeson reports. <\/p>\n

Irish tourism and leisure businesses reported a fifth successive monthly decline<\/b><\/a> in activity levels last month but continued to increase prices amid a slowdown in growth across the wider services sector, a survey from AIB <\/a>has found. Ian Curran has the details.<\/p>\n

An Irish mortgage and life insurance solutions fintech led by home loans expert Karl Deeter<\/b><\/a> has been acquired by London-listed Software Circle in a deal worth as much as \u20ac9 million. Joe Brennan reports on the deal. <\/p>\n

Irish data analysis specialist Advise<\/b><\/a> is spending \u20ac1.8 million on a move into the UK market after growing the business at home, writes Barry O\u2019Halloran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is a relatively low-tax, low-spend country compared to its European peers, making it economically closer to Boston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,96952,1700,77610,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-business-today","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-irish-fiscal-advisory-council","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114981081214802050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}