Ireland's tax take stable despite lockdown, future unclear

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's tax take has been broadly stable so far this year as bumper corporate tax returns and greater than expected resilience in income tax and VAT receipts staved off a forecast collapse because of the coronavirus pandemic.Ireland had expected its tax take for the year to be almost 10% or 2.1 billion euros lower year-on-year by the end of May when it published revised figures taking account of the shutdown. Data on Wednesday showed it was just 8 million euros lower.The..