"Government gave €400m in tax cuts over 3 years."

The claim in context

The Prime Minister has cited €400 million as the cumulative value of tax cuts the government has delivered or committed to over a three-year period. The figure is meant to capture the headline scale of fiscal-relief measures across multiple budgets.

What is documented

Budget 2026 confirms a single tax-cut package worth €160 million over three years, targeted at families with children. That is approximately 40% of the headline €400 million claim:

To reach €400 million, the government is presumably aggregating measures across Budget 2024, 2025 and 2026 — income-tax band changes, COLA adjustments, and possibly business-side reliefs. We cannot replicate that arithmetic without the original quote and the line items being summed.

Bottom line

The €400 million number is plausible but not directly attestable in available sources. Until we have the original Abela statement and the line-item breakdown, the claim sits at Unproven — not contradicted, but not confirmed.