Childminders given tax advantages

By Simon Vevers, Nursery World, 15 December 2005

A five-year childcare strategy unveiled by the Irish government that will create a further 50,000 places by 2010 has stirred controversy by allowing most childminders to earn c10,000 a year tax-free without being inspected or regulated. Nursery providers accused the Fianna Fail and Progressive Democrats government of treating other childcarers unfairly and argued that the exemption should be extended across the childcare sector.

A five-year childcare strategy unveiled by the Irish government that will create a further 50,000 places by 2010 has stirred controversy by allowing most childminders to earn c10,000 a year tax-free without being inspected or regulated. Nursery...

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