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Path for the Public Finances 2026

Taxing Times: The Future of Government Revenue.

This is the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s tenth annual conference on long-term public finance issues. This year’s conference is on the theme of government revenue. This includes risks to Ireland’s corporation tax, and the impacts of ageing and digitisation on the public finances.

Programme

Presentations (Videos and Slides)

Brian Cronin (Fiscal Council)

Corporation tax: Concentration risks, tariffs and other US policy changes (slides)

Emma Howard (Technical University Dublin)

Public attitudes and (mis)perceptions of fiscal policy (slides)

Sean Dougherty (OECD)

Ageing & AI: Rethinking fiscal pressures (slides)

Ed Cornforth (NIESR)

What taxes are best or worst for growth? Insights from NiGEM(slides)

Alejandro Esteller-Moré (Universitat de Barcelona and
Barcelona Institute of Economics)

Spain’s experience with wealth taxes (slides)