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I'm pretty good on declarations to Revenue, in fact squeaky clean. I had a large capital loss two years ago which I declared, and have been carrying forward. I'll have another one this year. I can see why Revenue wouldn't be sticklers for evidence when I'm handing over money for capital gains...

The neighbours have been building an extension for four years (!) and have not been in residence throughout this entire time. They adjoin us on a terrace. Three months ago their builder arrived in our front garden, ran Sky dish and Eir fibre cables (with the Open Eir installers in attendance)...

How soon are BOI likely to end negative interest rates on large deposits after yesterday's ECB rate rise? They've said they intend to, but when?

I've been helping an older neighbour move from Eircom landline to Virgin Media cable. She already had cable TV so it made sense to upgrade to TV, phone and broadband and cancel the very expensive package (phone only, no broadband) that Eir had her on. Got the VM package upgraded and ported her...

I went to order this from Amazon: Like a lot of people, I have a home address in Ireland plus a Northern Irish parcel motel address to use for items that ship free to UK addresses. This time Amazon offered me the above price of £239.99 and free delivery to either UK or Ireland. I triple...

I watch a lot of threads on AskAboutMoney. However, it would be impossible to watch every new individual message as the number of alerts would be overwhelming. Instead I have set up a watch on each forum, like the following for the "How to use Askaboutmoney" forum: This gets me an alert for...

This is definitely not a scam, but I'm concerned about the safety aspect. At Christmas I filled in a form for a well-known mid-size charity to make a donation by once-off credit card payment. They got back to me apologetically in January to say their procedures had to change at the request of...

New neighbours moved in next door and immediately put up a planning notice. We're a terraced house in a block of four, and the new neighbours are at the end-of-terrace. They are planning to more than double the size of the existing house, with a mixture of one and two-story flat-roofed...

I've done two university degrees in the last six years. In all that time I hardly read a single paper book. The academic institutions (which weren't Irish) made all their materials, including course books, available in common electronic formats. What's more they had no copy protection, so there...

A friend has a mortgage originally taken out with Bank of Scotland Ireland. The term was ten years interest only, followed by fifteen years of capital and interest payments. Having run into some difficulty with the looming repayment increase at the end of the I-O period, he agreed with BOSI to...

I'm not surprised, but still annoyed, at the coverage that Williams' meltdown at the US Open finals has garnered. To recap, she was (correctly) given a warning for coaching when her coach made hand signals from his seat. After losing the next game she flipped out and smashed her tennis racquet...

I have a PVC front door which has started making extremely loud cracking noises when swung on its hinges. It's much worse in hot weather than cold. The problem is I can't find anywhere to oil the hinges. They are either enclosed in PVC themselves or heavily painted, can't tell which. There is...

Has anyone used a virtual phone number service like flynumber.com or freedigits.com? A sibling who lives in the UK has a holiday home in Ireland and needs an Irish phone number to sign up for a number of things. Looks to me like flynumber.com with let them get a Dublin landline number and...

If you gift shares to a relative it may be possible to offset CAT liability against CGT paid. Covered in another AAM thread previously here. In my case I want to gift shares to a sibling. The value is around the CAT threshold, so no liability there. But the shares are trading at a substantial...

Panda sent this email around: Dear Panda Customer, Panda collects and processes 100,000 tons per annum of mixed dry recyclables from over a quarter of a million homes across Ireland and many commercial businesses. Recycling is a Global business and for more than a decade China has been the...

Like "Firefighters", this is not a scam, just a very misleading cold-calling tactic. Guy at the door with a clipboard immediately announced he wasn't selling anything, just offering a free switcher service and a free energy review of heating, lighting etc. He raced out a spiel about SEAI grants...

Have been looking at Bank of Ireland's 365 31-Day Notice Account. The "Product Features" states: "You can pay money into the Account just once (by a single SEPA Direct Debit from your Bank of Ireland Current Account) which will take a minimum of 8 working days". Am I understanding this...

I quit my job some years back and my pension got moved into a personal retirement bond. At the time I got a letter from a certain individual who had acted as some sort of pension adviser to my former company. I have no idea if this individual is acting as some sort of broker and actually making...

I make a habit of returning my Form 11 on January 1st every year. The Form 11 for the previous year does not become available in ROS until then... until this year. For the first time, ROS has let me select to file a return for 2017 during December 2017. I thought I'd try it out and file on New...

Looking for recommendations for a surveyor and solicitor for conveyancing in South County Dublin. Would be grateful for any advice.