Results of Comprehensive Assessment

The relevant documents published by the ECB are here.

The Guarantee

The Irish Times preview the film with the screenplay writer Colin Murphy and producer John Kelleher here.  There is also a short clip from the movie to whet the appetite. 

Having seen the Fishamble stage production of  Guaranteed! last year I am looking forward to the film version which goes on limited release next week.  They probably took some artistic license with the adaption but hopefully not too much.

Budget 2015 and the 2014 Finance Bill

The 2014 Finance Bill was published yesterday and it is available here with related documents.

There’s not a lot new in the Bill.  One of the very minor changes relates to mortgage interest relief, with the relief now available to Income Tax payers in Ireland (who derive the bulk of their income in Ireland) for qualifying loans on PPRs in the entire European Economic Area rather than just Ireland.  There are plenty of other minor changes.

On the changes to corporate residency rules announced in the budget The National Law Review in the US has published a useful article under the heading: Death of the “Double Irish Dutch Sandwich”? Not so Fast. re: Irish Incorporated Non-resident Companies.  It is available here.

Earlier in the week the Minister for Finance and the Opposition Finance spokespeople gave statements to the Dáil on the pre-budget statement of the Fiscal Advisory Council.  The transcripts of these Dáil statements are here.

Budget 2015

There’s plenty to discuss from yesterday’s announcements but any OP is not likely to be followed by related comments.

All the relevant documents from the Department of Finance are here.

This is a summary of the aggregate budgetary changes (in €million).

Here are two vintages of the debt interest table.  First from the April 2013 SPU.

And this from yesterday’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook:

There are lots of opinions I’m sure on how this (temporary?)  improvement was used.

10-year bonds issued at 1.63%

NTMA note here.