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# excise duty

Last week
28th May 2023 - 3rd June 2023
# Fuel Prices
Petrol prices: Donohoe defends excise rate increase, says not doing so would cost €700m
Donohoe said: “It’s really important that we remove the tax reductions as the price of fuel itself has come down.”
# forecourts
Full tank of petrol to rise by €3.60, diesel by €3 as excise duty cuts expire at midnight
Rates were cut last March and will return to previous levels in three increments.
Last year
2022
# Tapped Out
Government not planning to reduce excise duty on alcohol following Heineken price rise
The company announced yesterday that it is increasing its keg prices by 9%.
# Cost of Living
Petrol prices: Consumer watchdog receives almost 200 complaints in two weeks
The CCPC has urged anyone with information about cartel behaviour and collusion to come forward as a whistleblower.
# CCPC
Taoiseach says fuel price gouging 'morally reprehensible' as watchdog receives 25 more complaints
It comes after allegations of price gouging by service station chains were aired in Dáil Éireann yesterday.
# energy crunch
'Panic buying will only make the situation worse,' say Ireland's oil and fuel suppliers
Oil suppliers are limiting the amount they are selling to high volume customers.
All time
# budget 2022
Most packets of cigarettes will now cost €15 after 50c tax hike
This is the sixth year in a row the price has increased by that amount.
# excise duty
A pack of 20 cigarettes will now cost €13.50
The minister did not announce any change to excise duty on alcohol products.
# Cross Border Shopping
Drinks industry calls for drop in 'uncompetitive' alcohol tax as sterling value continues to fall
The Drinks Industry Group of Ireland called for a 15% reduction in the tax by 2021.
# some neck
Drinking wine in Ireland is expensive. Really, really expensive
The National Off-Licence Association says it’s hurting smaller sellers.
# dodgy fuel
Complaints about petrol 'stretching' in Mayo force gardaí to act
Gardaí will implement a plan to tackle it with Revenue.
# excise duty
Reducing the price of a pint by 5c would cost the government €41 million
The drinks industry says it would help pub owners but alcohol awareness advocates say it would be damaging to society.
# make mine a double
The government needs to rethink its approach to whiskey (and not the stuff in the Dáil bar)
The Oireachtas Agriculture Committee has been told that the high level of excise duty on spirits is putting the livelihoods of 12,000 families and a €1bn injection into the Irish economy at risk.
# Alcohol
61% of independent off-licences will sack staff if excise duty rises
Just 7 per cent of these businesses said they have managed to maintain pre-Budget 2014 sales volumes.
# Cigarettes
New rules to restrict cigarettes bought into Ireland from certain EU countries
From January, those travelling from six EU member states will only be able to bring in 300 cigarettes without paying additional excise duty.
# Budget 14
Off Licence association to bring wine excise increase to EU Commission
The price of wine is gone up by 50 cent, under yesterday’s Budget 214 announcement.
# Alcohol
More off-licences expected to close if government refuses to reduce excise duty
An association representing independent off-licences also said today that there should be a ban on selling alcohol below cost.
# Exchequer Returns
Taxman rakes in €17.6bn in last six months despite missing excise, VAT targets
The Department of Finance said the tax profile is helped by the collection of €126 million in Property Tax receipts.
# Exchequer Returns
State's income for three of the 'big four' taxes is less than expected
Income tax, VAT and excise duties are lower than had been forecast – but corporation tax is well ahead of expectations.
# Exchequer Returns
Deficit stands at €3.7 billion in latest exchequer returns
Tax revenue was ahead of target by €47 million with corporation tax surpassing its target by €147 million.
# Exchequer Returns
Exchequer returns show slight fall in tax take for February
The total tax take in February 2013 was €2.042 billion – down by €186 million on the same month from last year.
# Exchequer Returns
Exchequer figures show slight fall in government income in January
A €1 billion sale of Bank of Ireland notes means Ireland recorded an Exchequer surplus for January 2013.
# Budget 2013
Budget 2013: what measures kick in today
Child benefit cuts, respite carer grant cuts and motor tax increases.
# need to know
The Evening Fix...now with added dogs who can drive
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
# Exchequer Returns
Exchequer returns: Government's tax take 0.5 per cent below target
The Department of Finance has released the last exchequer returns before tomorrow’s Budget with income tax take for November 12 per cent below target.
# Budget 2013
Government income for 2012 to fall short of Budget target
The first documents for Budget 2013 show the government expecting a 4.5 per cent increase in income tax in 2013.
# Contraband
351,000 contraband cigarettes seized at Dublin Port
The cigarettes would have posed a loss to the Exchequer of about €120,000, and were disguised as ‘advertising material’.
# Sugary Drinks
Food industry not convinced by sugar tax, but neither are dentists
While food industry representatives say that a tax would hit consumers, dentists question the health benefits of it.
# Exchequer Returns
Exchequer returns show €2.9 billion deficit due, in part, to payment to the ESM
Spending at the Department of Social Protection was more than expected, whereas the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation continues to underspend.
# Exchequer Returns
Exchequer returns show tax take up but deficit at over €11bn
Spending at the Departments of Health and Social Protection were more than expected, according to the latest figures from the Department of Finance.
# In summary
11 things to know about the IMF's latest Irish review
The latest IMF update on Ireland’s financial health, summarised into handy bitesized chunks.
# Exchequer
Tax revenues ahead of target in first five months of 2012
The Department of Finance said that the increases marked “an encouraging performance” in the first five months of the year.
# Petrol Prices
Government likely to vote against FF proposal to cut fuel duty
Fianna Fáil is to bring legislation before the Dáil this evening to cut fuel excise duty by 4 cent, offering an effective cut in fuel prices of 5 cent.
# Fuel
Noonan rules out cuts to fuel taxes despite record prices
As the price of a litre of petrol passes €1.62, the Minister for Finance says tax cuts could mean “significant costs” to the State.
# Motor Tax
Backbencher calls for examination of scrapping motor tax
A Fine Gael TD has called on the government to look into eliminating motor tax, and replacing it with extra levies on fuel.
# Exchequer
Government's 2011 tax income misses Budget target by 2.5 per cent
New data published by the Department of Finance show that income tax, VAT and corporation tax were all lower than expected.
# Budget 2012
Retailers call for no taxes on consumers and cuts to expenditure in Budget
Retail Ireland has called on the government not to increase excise duty and not to shift the payment of sick leave onto employers in the Budget next week.
# Exchequer
Tax intake €2 billion higher than last year but still behind target
New figures from the Exchequer also show its deficit has blown up to €22.2 billion due to payments made to recapitalise Irish banks.
# Smuggling
Man caught with illegal cigarettes, charged and jailed in one day
Dublin District Court judge sends smuggler down for six months after he’s caught with nearly 10,000 illegal cigarettes.