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# VAT

This year
2024
‘We need help’: Restaurant and cafe owners say they are struggling like never before
The Journal spoke to a number of restaurant, cafe and bar owners, with all of them reporting the same problems and suggesting similar solutions.
4 Feb
37.4k
132
Last year
2023
Budget 2024: Some changes kicked in at midnight - others won't take effect for quite a while
11 Oct 2023
66.7k
47
Motorists face increased costs as price of petrol and diesel set to rise from tomorrow
31 Aug 2023
23.3k
105
VAT reduction on sport and exercise classes considered by government for upcoming budget
21 Jul 2023
9.9k
26
Hairdressers and restaurants call for current 9% VAT rate to be retained
18 Jul 2023
12.4k
52
VAT rate on supply and installation of solar panels to be abolished
2 Apr 2023
40.1k
57
Tourism reps say increasing reduced 9% VAT rate for sector will be 'extremely detrimental'
17 Feb 2023
8.4k
14
Haircut costs ‘will increase’ if special hospitality VAT rate given the chop
31 Jan 2023
11.2k
21
Taoiseach: 'No cliff edge to cost-of-living supports at the end of February'
11 Jan 2023
22.8k
13
Government to consider extending cost-of-living support measures beyond February
1 Jan 2023
15.9k
7
All time
Budget 2023: What measures have already kicked in?
28 Sep 2022
30.7k
22
VAT is scrapped on newspapers, defibrilators and HRT but will increase for hospitality
27 Sep 2022
17.9k
9
Taoiseach doesn't agree with Varadkar's tax report remarks comparing some ideas to SF manifesto
15 Sep 2022
19.9k
25
Reduced 9% VAT rate for hospitality sector to be extended until February 2023
10 May 2022
20.1k
33
VAT rate cut from 13.5% to 9% on energy bills until the end of October
Updated 13 Apr 2022
23.3k
29
VAT on gas and electricity could be cut to 9% under Government proposals to tackle cost of living crisis
11 Apr 2022
35.2k
109
Further package of measures to help ease the cost of living to be approved next week
7 Apr 2022
61.0k
67
EU might not give the green light on VAT reduction on fuel until May
Updated 29 Mar 2022
12.9k
20
An Garda Síochána pays Revenue €270,000 to settle VAT bill for Templemore restaurant and shop
10 Jun 2021
29.3k
27
VAT rate reduction for tourism and hospitality sector kicks in today
1 Nov 2020
24.3k
32
Subway sandwiches contain 'too much sugar' to legally be considered bread, Supreme Court rules
30 Sep 2020
201k
62
Yoga instructors: 'We are basically starting from scratch as an industry'
21 Jun 2020
31.5k
12
Candlemaker faces €400,000 VAT bill after losing legal battle over shape of candles
2 Jun 2020
99.3k
64
Taoiseach rules out 0% VAT rate for tourism, but cut could be brought in by the next government
7 May 2020
15.2k
40
Stink bombs, celebration, and a 'hesitant' public: When Britain joined the EEC in 1973
1 Feb 2020
8.4k
10
Minister sets up period poverty committee: 'Menstruation is not a choice'
7 Oct 2019
22.5k
43
Poll: Should VAT be removed on condoms and menstrual cups?
12 Aug 2019
28.7k
76
Harris wants VAT removed on condoms and menstrual cups
12 Aug 2019
22.7k
43
Minister commits to taking action on free sanitary products in public buildings
27 Mar 2019
15.1k
37
Ross' hopes for cheaper non-alcoholic booze nixed after Donohoe says 'no plans' to reduce tax
2 Mar 2019
16.6k
46
VAT on vitamins and supplements won't jump to 23% - at least until November
Updated 26 Feb 2019
26.5k
47
Irish businesses urge Taoiseach for longer VAT deferral on UK imports post-Brexit
11 Feb 2019
10.7k
20
'Stinks to the high heavens of Fianna Fáil-ism': Fury from hairdressers and restaurants after VAT hike
18 Jan 2019
41.0k
73
Poll: Will the hospitality VAT hike make you go to restaurants less?
3 Jan 2019
24.4k
61
The hospitality VAT hike has kicked in and customers might notice a jump in their morning coffee
2 Jan 2019
43.8k
91
A junior minister tried citing a 25-year-old policy to spare tourism firms some pain from VAT hikes
14 Dec 2018
1.1k
0
Roscommon County Council takes hit as Revenue publishes latest tax defaulters list
4 Dec 2018
33.7k
17
Whatever happened to the carbon tax? It came down to a call between VAT and fuel hikes
9 Oct 2018
18.5k
41
Poll: Do you agree with plans to increase the VAT rate for hotels and restaurants by 50%?
9 Oct 2018
36.6k
101
Irish pharmacists want condoms to be made VAT-free
14 Sep 2018
12.3k
43
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