Social Justice Ireland: Tracking Distributive Effects of Budget Policy, 2025 edition

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"Tracking the Distributive Effects of Budget Policy" complements our analysis of Budget 2025. It also provides further assessments of recent distributive choices:

  • a distributive analysis of all the income taxation, welfare and cost-of-living measures announced in Budget 2025 and an assessment of the proportion of these that represent temporary income changes;
  • a distributive analysis of the permanent changes to income taxation and welfare over the five Budgets delivered by the Government that held office from 2020-2025.
  • include an assessment of how the gaps between jobseekers and those on middle and very high incomes have changed over recent years including the impact of the measures in the 

Tracking Distributive Effects of Budgets 2025 edition

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