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http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/ireland-is-the-best-country-in-the-world-new-survey-suggests-1.1843347 Heard some mention of this on the radio yesterday, great news!! Put that in your Swiss pipe and smoke it Jim2007 :p In all seriousness though, the funniest bit is that we...

Hi all, The background: Back in the bad storms in early February, I left my car in to be serviced by my mechanic, and while it was on his premises it was damaged by a wall that fell in the high winds (it was knocked by a tree falling in the adjacent garden). There was a bit (well, a LOT) of...

Deadline extended by a further 2 days due to the volume of calls today. An Irish solution (extending deadline) to an Irish problem (huge numbers leaving it to the very last minute)... :D [broken link removed]

OK so I left my car out to my mechanic to be serviced during the week, and left it parked on his premises. There is a house next door to his premises, and within an hour a large tree in the garden of that house blew down in the stormy weather, and its roots caused the party wall to come down...

Another new scam email doing the rounds purporting to be from "Irish Tax and Customs", and suggesting a refund of XXX "Irish pound (IEP)" is due... (I mean, COME ON, "Irish pound"?!) Warn the gullible in your life! [broken link removed]

... I'm stuck in work, and it's a 1hr 45min drive from here to the old homestead where my polling card & station are, and then 45mins back to where I live. If there's anyone who has a polling card and wasn't going to bother voting, could you please vote No to the Seanad, and Yes to the court...

This just came to my attention in the last week or so... [broken link removed] A couple of the most relevant parts are quoted below: "The ‘test’ as to whether a LPT-generated surcharge applies is done when the income tax return is filed, as long as this occurs on or before the deadline for...

OK so I'm trying to calculate my Mum's eligibility for her State Contributory Pension - she'll be 65 in a few weeks, so it's only around the corner. I've got a statement of her contributions paid and credited since her date of entry in 1964-65. Assuming she has a full year's contributions...

I heard Noonan saying motor tax rates & VRT are to increase from 1/1/2013, but is there a chart or figures anywhere quantifying the changes?

Just want to try to get a handle on this, and not expecting a calibre of discussion appropriate to the proper forum... What would be the economic value of say 10,000 new jobs in the economy? By this I mean, the effect of 10,000 people coming off the live register and into, say, fairly basic...

Hi all, As someone who is hoping to become a FTB in the next couple of years, I'm intrigued as to why there is not much more activity on a rent to buy basis? I remember there was a flurry of talk about it 2/3 years ago, but then it never really seemed to take off, and I'm wondering why not...

... if / when gay marriage gets the constitutional green light? I've had a bit of a bee in my bonnet over that piece of legislation ever since it came in. I had foolishly assumed that it would grant cohabiting couples the same tax treatment as married couples (making the tax system operate...

<I haven't had an argument with TMcGibney in at least a week, but this ought to get the ball rolling...> ... according to this month's Tax.Point, TALC have met Revenue and been informed that as with the NPPR, there will not be a Case V deduction for the household charge. <...sit back and...

I'd seen this site before but was reminded of it by someone at the weekend, and realised I'd forgotten what songs were at No. 1 on the day I was born - then when I checked this morning I realised they were best left forgotten! UK: Buck's Fizz - Land of Make Believe (ewwwwww!) US: olivia...

Straightforward enough question, but I can't find anything definitive either way from my initial searching... as the title says I'm wondering whether Proprietary Directors are entitled to: 1. Statutory redundancy? 2. Exemption (and increased basic exemption, SCSB, and Top Slicing Relief!) for...

OK, I'm going to keep it short and sweet as I'm not familiar with this sort of legislation at all, but my query stems from the preferential tax treatment afforded to civil partners under the new legislation. I suppose my argument (if you could call it that!) can be summed up as follows...

Hi all, I received the following text message from a friend this evening and I'm not able to answer it - would appreciate enlightenment if anyone can advise!? "Do you know the formula for the cash draw down for a person exiting a pension fund. Its the wind up of w********d c*****l pension...

Interesting little hypothetical scenario: An individual owns a piece of land. He forms a Ltd Co. and this company proceeds to build a structure, say a storage shed, on the director's land. It uses the storage shed in the course of it's trade. Now to the issue: There is no lease in place...

Going to speak to my bank anyway but just said I'd throw this out there: I've recently started a new job (Civil Service), so it's a permanent job, but I'm on a probationary period until next April. If I approach the bank shortly about getting approval in principal to see how much I'm able to...