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🏛️ BUDGET 2027 · ANNOUNCED 6 OCT 2026

Budget 2027
Impact Calculator

What Budget 2027 puts in your pocket from 1 January 2027. Calculate your personal gain.

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Tax Band +€2.5k
Up to €500 saving
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Credits +€125
+€250–500/year
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Rent Tax Credit
€1,000 → €1,150
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State Pension
+€10/week

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Budget 2027 Key Measures

Income Tax & USC

  • +Standard rate band +€2,500 (now €46,500 single)
  • +Personal, employee & earned income credits +€125 (now €2,125)
  • +Home Carer credit +€100
  • +USC 2% band raised to €30,300

Welfare & Pensions

  • +All core weekly rates +€10 (State Pension €309.30)
  • +Jobseeker's €264/week
  • +Fuel Allowance +€5 to €43/week; single 66+ limit €641
  • +Living Alone Increase €22 → €25
  • +Child support €64 (<12) / €84 (12+)
  • +New €500 annual cost-of-disability payment

Housing & Capital

  • +Rent Tax Credit €1,000 → €1,150 per person
  • +Help to Buy up to €35,000
  • +CGT cut by 2 points
  • +CAT thresholds: A €420k · B €44k · C €22k

Work, Motoring & Excise

  • +Minimum wage +79c to €14.94/hour
  • +Employer PRSI lower-rate threshold €552 → €600
  • +EV VRT relief (€5,000) extended to end 2028; +1% VRT on cars over 80g/km
  • +Cigarettes +€1 per 20; new 20c/ml vape tax
Source: Budget 2027 — gov.ie · Estimates only · Actual impact varies · Not financial advice

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