• Budget 2012: The KPMG View (Video Commentary)
  7 December 2011
  KPMG provides a perspective of the Budget 2012 tax measures and their impact on Irish business.
  
  
• Taxing Times — Budget 2012 & Current Tax Developments 7 December 2011
  • Personal Tax
  • Employee Issues
  • Business Tax
  • Indirect Taxes
  • Property & Construction
  • Tax Rates and Credits 2012
  • Personal Tax Scenarios 2012
  
  
• Not All Bad News as Vital Enterprise Sector Gets a Boost
  7 December 2011
  Amidst all the doom and gloom about our economic misery, there is a more positive story which deserves attention.
  
  
• Budget Headlines 6 December 2011
  Initial commentary from KPMG upon the announcement of the Budget on 6 December 2011.
  
  
• Tax Update: New and Emerging Companies
  6 December 2011
  Employment and Investment Incentive and Seed Capital Scheme - New Regime Now in Force
  
  
• Budgetary Context
  4 December 2011
  This Tuesday will see a fifth consecutive austerity budget. To date, austerity has manifested itself in increased income taxes, some changes in capital taxes, the introduction of a carbon tax, and the pension fund levy.
  
  
• Infrastructural and Capital Investment 2012-16: Medium-Term Exchequer Framework
  2 December 2011
  The Government announced the conclusions of its review of capital spending recently. This report had been eagerly awaited as decisions on significant numbers of capital projects had effectively been stalled in the interim.
  
  
• Budget 2012 & Medium-Term Fiscal Statement: Video Commentary
  9 November 2011
  In the lead-up to Budget 2012 on 6 December 2011, KPMG provides tax insights on the policy matters outlined in the Irish government’s Medium-Term Fiscal Statement.
  
  
• Medium-Term Fiscal Statement: KPMG Update 5 November 2011
  Today, 4 November 2011, the government published its Medium-Term Fiscal Statement: 2012 - 2015 (the Statement). Unlike the National Recovery Plan (“NRP”), the Statement contains very little detail on individual tax policy measures.

See also:

• KPMG’s Corporate and Indirect Tax Survey 2011 shows that corporate tax rates across the globe have been steadily falling for a decade, while VAT has been introduced or expanded, giving rise to higher indirect tax rates and a broader base.
  
  
• KPMG’s Individual Income Tax and Social Security Rate Survey 2011 is a cross-border survey of personal tax and social security rates from 96 countries for each of the past nine years.