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Hi, I would like to buy a mobile home, primarily for use by my family but also others, some of whom I would have a business relationship with. I also am involved in a few businesses and have a holding company with shareholdings or options in these businesses. In considering buying the mobile...

I sold a property (NPPR) November 2014. I have historically been extremely diligent in discharging my tax returns and payment of NPPR, LPT etc. As the house was sold in 2014, I assumed I had no LPT liability for that property in 2015. Indeed my LPT online indicated everything was hunky dory, no...

....As per title, got a text today as per below verbatim: An obvious scam as: I hadn't scraped any car today The gardai would not have my number Even if they did, issuing my mobile to a random accuser would be a clear reach of data protection I would like to report the number to...

I have tenants who have always been late and slow with their rent. In the last few months though they have got really bad and have arrears of 3000 euro. So I sent them a 14-day arrears notice (I followed the PRTB rules) and when the arrears were not cleared (nor even an attempt made) the I...

Had 2 mortgages with KBC, one PPR (variable) and one Buy-To-Let (Tracker). In 2013, managed to sell PPR (we had moved out of it as we needed a bigger house - renting). Sold for less than mortgage (approx. 20k shortfall) but we had funds in place to clear balance when closing so no issues. Now...

As per thread title, I filed my Form 11 on ROS on Monday. The calculation resulted in a refund of approx 4k due. (This is due to the fact that my wife was made redundant in 2012 and had over-paid her taxes). Imagine my surprise to log in the next day and see a Notice of Assessment stating...

Steven Pearlstein has published an interesting article on the Irish economy in the Washington Post - his last such report on Ireland was early 2006 and was remarkably prescient. Read full article here:

Hi, I'm due to sell a small number of shares in my company to fund a deposit on a family home - the gross price would be approx 300k. For CGT purposes, the base price would be negligible (approx 10k) I also own an investment property in negative equity, which I would love to sell (bought in...

Hi, My company has been ploughing away at the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi) for the last 7 months developing a pipeline. To do a deal with a government agency, we know that we need to set up a branch office, but that is going to cost 50k. My plan however was to get a few contracts with some private...

I had a delay in filing my taxes online last November - I had lost my password to ROS and needed it re-issued. I knew that I didn't owe the revenue any tax as had paid PAYE all year and my rental income was much lower than expenses. So I didn't expect there to be a late filing penalty. I just...

If you sell a property for less than the outstanding mortgage and continue to make monthly repayments to clear the balance, what rate is typically applied to the outstanding balance? I am thinking that from the bank's point of view, the balance is unsecured by an asset, so I would have thought...

A couple of years ago, a reasoanable office rent would be quoted at around 40/sq ft. Add in rates, service charges, and the cost of even modest office space, (say 1000-2000 sq ft) racked up. My business is currently expanding and I am looking at new office space. I am looking at Dundrum and...

Hi, My business is a couple of years old, and we are investing heavily in R&D for new products, such that our VAT returns routinely result in (sometimes significant) VAT refunds. This month we submitted our VAT return on ROS as usual but have not received the refund yet. We are getting...

Hi there Can anyone please advise regarding the best place to source suitable people/colleges to provide grinds for repeat exams during blackhall place. The stage I am looking for grinds for are repeat exams after the first six months of blackhall, does griffith college provide this as I...

Hi folks, I have just received a quote for painting a quite small section of a flat that has surprised me to say the least: Full ceiling downstairs (size of an average living room (250-300 sq ft) Half of the walls dowstairs (kitchen area is already tiled so not applicable) 2 small rooms...

Hope some of you might be able to help here. Yesterday outlook started acting up, freezing, then prompting me to restart the application. Would work fine for a couple of minutes, but it has progressed to a stage where it has barely started and it hangs. It directed me to debug in Visual studio...

Hi - I'm planning to make an offer to a software engineer who is just about to graduate. Up to now, all positions have been filled off-shore so now beginning to add staff here. However I'm not sure of the appropriate rates - I just don't trust the recruitment sites as they seem to vary like...

Somethings been bothering me for a while about our atitude to taxation and tax dodgers in this country, which often occurs to me when browsing this site. If you post as a landlord, there is an almost deafening cacophony of (excellent) advice to ensure best taxation avoidance measures are...

Hi I set up a limited company in 2006, and up until recently I had little trouble keeping on top of cashflow accounts and everything. However we are now really busy and have a team of 20 people (4 here, 16 offshore), and I'm being pulled all over the place. In particular as we are selling to...

Hi, We got a maple semi-solid floor put in a few years back but it is getting very scratched at this stage. At the time, the fitter said that this was bound to happen over time as the wood is on the soft side. He said down the line we could get it sanded down and varnished at it would be back...