Strong income and corporation tax receipts contributed to an Exchequer surplus of €700 million for the first half of 2026. Income tax take between January and June was €18.6bn, which was a 6.7% rise ...

As the verification drive to ascertain the beneficiaries of guarantee schemes gets under way, it is not expected to bring down much of the financial burden on the State exchequer. Those in the know of ...

Mistral AI on Tuesday released OCR 4, a document intelligence model that moves beyond raw text extraction to return structured representations of entire documents — complete with bounding boxes, block ...

A woman has been taken to hospital after an alleged assault in Dublin city centre in the early hours of Thursday morning. Parts of Exchequer Street, Wicklow Street and Grafton Street remained cordoned ...

ISLAMABAD: The Senate has surrendered Rs1.436 billion to the national exchequer after a year-long austerity drive, exceeding the Finance Division’s target by 500 per cent and setting what officials ...

Employment and spending boosted taxes in the first five months of the year, new figures show, but experts warn that rising costs are pushing businesses to a “cliff edge”. The Government collected ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States continues to lead the world in Artificial Intelligence (AI) because of the enormous talent and innovation of our AI industry, and because we refuse to stifle this ...

Permission for judicial review refused on three independent grounds, with wider implications for pre-legislative consultation challenges. The Divisional Court has refused permission for judicial ...

Actor-turned-politician C. Joseph Vijay has finally taken oath as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu after a stellar debut in the recently held assembly elections. Vijay’s party, Tamilaga Vettri ...

Tax revenues to end-April amounted to €28 billion, up by 4.2 per cent on April 2025, new Exchequer figures show. Of this, income tax receipts amounted to €12.4 billion (up 5.7 per cent); corporation ...

Spending on wages by the Government is up 9.3% so far this year, which more than the 6.3% increase forecast in the Budget. Latest Exchequer returns from the Department of Finance show overall ...

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has won a battle for the authority to force pension funds to invest a proportion of their assets in the country, one of her economic growth initiatives ...