Doone O'Doherty
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first heard Oct 2025
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Why is it necessary?
Well, we needed to boost international competitiveness and we needed to ease the cost and the admin burden of doing business, both of which are critical if we're to remain competitive as an economy.
What's happened over the years is that we have seen new and very complex legislation being layered on top of existing requirements.
And probably one of the starkest examples that I could give is the annual corporate tax return, which all companies have to file, irrespective of size,
That has gone from 15 pages, probably about 15 years ago, to 70 pages now, which is a massive administrative burden.
100%.
And you have everything else coming at you or knocking at your door.
So simplification is very welcome.
Yesterday, as you said, we spoke about compasses.
There was roadmaps.
There's an action plan.
The devil is going to be in the detail.
Finance Bill is due to be published next Friday.
So hopefully we'll have more clarity there.
But it is urgently required for the compassion of the article.
Yeah.
So the Special Assigning Relief Programmer, SARP, is really designed, Joe, to lure that highly skilled, well-paid international workforce to Ireland.
You mentioned at the top of the program around companies trying to attract AI talent away from Silicon Valley.
That's exactly what SARP is intended to do.
Very positively.
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