CONTENTS Opening Address B Whelan Chapter 1 Budget 2000: A Macroeconomic Perspective D Duffy 2 Income Tax and Social Welfare Policies T Callan, B Nolan, J Walsh, R Nestor 3 The Role of Budgetary Policy in Social Consensus J Durkan 4 Current Perspectives on Corporate Taxation T McCarthy 5...

Opening Address - Brendan Whelan Assessing Ireland's Fiscal Strategy: Recent Experiments and Future Plans Philip Lane of Trinity College Dublin presents a paper reviewing a number of innovations which have been made by the Minister for Finance in the last four or five years. He considers the...

In his paper presented at the ESRI/FFS "Budget Perspectives 2008" Conference, Philip Lane (IIIS/TCD) asks "What are the implications for fiscal policy of the current deceleration in output growth?" Over 2003-2006, total government spending and total tax revenues have grown markedly faster than...

In his paper presented at the ESRI/FFS "Budget Perspectives 2008" Conference, Philip Lane (IIIS/TCD) asks "What are the implications for fiscal policy of the current deceleration in output growth?" Over 2003-2006, total government spending and total tax revenues have grown markedly faster than...