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Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane has called for clarity on the deal on Anglo promissory notes. She insists that any deal with the ECB must result in a debt write down and not merely postpone the debt to be paid by future generations.

If fuel prices continue to rise at their current rate, it will have a catastrophic effect on the competitiveness of Irish products and services, both at home and abroad.

The Minister for Finance Michael Noonan this week published the Finance Bill 2012 which gives effect to taxation measures announced in last December’s Budget.

Mayo County Councillor, Cllr Annie May Reape has expressed her dismay at the recent Government decision to discontinue its support of the local authority administered Local Improvement Scheme.

After much speculation, Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, confirmed that the standard rate of Irish VAT is to increase from 21 per cent to 23 per cent with effect from midnight 31 December 2011. This VAT rate change is earlier than set out by the Government under the National Recovery Plan where it stated that the standard rate of VAT would only increase to 23 per cent in 2014.

O’Donnellan & Joyce’s final spoilt for choice property auction will be held tomorrow (Friday) at 3pm in the Victoria Hotel, Eyre Square.

Upward only rent reviews that are causing financial hardship for tenants leasing expensive commercial properties can only be reviewed where those properties are owned by NAMA, but not where they are in private ownership.

The Midlands Branch of the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) gave a mixed welcome to the Minister for Finance’s Budget announcement. It welcomed the special allocation to be made for the national tourism Gathering initiative in 2013 and acknowledged the significant benefit the reduced VAT rate of 9 per cent has had for the hospitality sector; however, it criticised the guillotining of capital allowance schemes.

Increasing mortgage interest relief for those who bought their first home at the height of the property bubble “will help a significant cohort of people”.

A Kilkenny retailer has warned that the easy availability of illegal cigarettes has caused hundreds of job losses in the retail sector this year.