All posts tagged "John McCarthy"

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  ‘Death to the tax return’: tracking the revolution in revenue collection

  Digital technologies are dramatically easing the process of paying tax, while providing invaluable data to finance departments. At the Government Finance Summit, civil service leaders discussed the remarkable progress in

  • Posted January 13, 2025
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  The tAIxman: how AI is transforming Ireland’s revenue collection 

  Finance departments can be slow to adopt new technologies but in the land where the computer was first conceived, Ireland’s Revenue agency is finding a host of applications for artificial

  • Posted January 2, 2025
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  If it counts, count it: government finance leaders on boosting productivity

  The public sector is often accused of inefficiency – but at the Global Government Finance Summit, top leaders revealed some highly inventive ways of driving up civil service productivity “The

  • Posted December 17, 2024
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  The ‘four Ds’: Ireland’s chief economist spells out the major challenges governments face

  At the Global Government Finance Summit, Ireland’s chief economist John McCarthy listed the ‘four Ds’: the structural challenges weakening growth and public finances both in Ireland and in other advanced

  • Posted December 13, 2024
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  The economic emergency services: finance departments and the pandemic

  When Covid-19 hit, many finance departments put their economies on life support. Gathering in Estonia, civil service finance leaders considered how their patients responded – and shared their fears about

  • Posted December 4, 2022
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  When the black swans come home to roost: explaining inflation

  The world has had to face a lot of ‘black swan’ disruptive events over recent years – and in responding to these immediate challenges, finance ministries have sometimes created new

  • Posted November 27, 2022
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