Welcome relief after years of ‘austerity’

In a continuation from last week’s issue, Geraldine Corcoran, Tax Partner with HLB Ryan & Co, provides an overview of how Budget 2015 may affect healthcare workers and their patients. As part of Budget 2015, Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s fourth Budget and his penultimate Budget before election year, we saw some Taxation measures (see last week’s edition for a report on some of these measures), including the following: Home Renovation Scheme The Home Renovation Scheme, which was introduced in last year’s Budget, has been very successful to date. The incentive is generating employment in the tax-compliant construction sector and increasing…