An increase in carbon taxes will see the price of a litre of fuel climb by 2 cent, which will cost the average motorist about €20 a year. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

In budgets of times past – both the hard times and those times when the living was easy – calculators and complex tax tables were needed to work out how much better or worse off we would be once the changes kicked in.

But there has been no need for calculators this time around, and the impact of Budget 2026 on the pockets of many, if not most, Irish consumers can best be described as minim

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