Budget 2026: Your questions answered from inheritance tax to benefits

In the News podcast: Our readers had a lot of questions - here are the answers

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Minister for Finance: Paschal Donohoe TD and Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, Jack Chambers TD speaking to the media at Government Buildings to discuss the Budget 2026.  Photograph: Sam Boal/Collins Photos
Minister for Finance: Paschal Donohoe TD and Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, Jack Chambers TD speaking to the media at Government Buildings to discuss the Budget 2026. Photograph: Sam Boal/Collins Photos

So now we know what’s in Budget 2026 but for most people, what’s not so clear is what’s in it for them.

As he has done every year on the day after the budget Irish Times personal finance expert and deputy business editor Dominic Coyle put a call-out to readers for their own queries and then he answered them.

For In the News we pick out some of the questions that exercised people the most and explains how he answered.

Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan.

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