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    What should I do with a rarely used vacant apartment?

    I live with my partner who owns her own house, mortgage free. The house will eventually go to her adult children which is fine by me. I have an apartment in Bray which is mortgaged and I am covering it easily, I plan to use this to move into when my partners home is eventually passed onto he...
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    Redundancy and Employee leaving

    At the end of the week I had planned to give two employees notice of redundancy, this morning one of the employees has given in their notice to say they are starting a job in two weeks. So the question is, do I now need to give that employee notice of redundancy?
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    CashIQ.net a free service for company and director information

    to be honest this looks like a poor version of www.duedil.com it seems to have pull the data from the same source but the presentation isnt as good. Also there isnt a great explanation of what you get for your subscription e.g. you can avail of the Intellisearch option, but I cant see what...
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    How to maintain 100% company ownership without becoming a director?

    You could use an umlimited company with the risks that are attached to that and then have the shares owned by a company outside of the country, for example an Isle of Man company, which doesnt have to publish its accounts.
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    revenue audit question

    the first thing the revenue inspector will ask will be do you have anything to declare, so if you are up front and say "I'm out by 8k because of mistake x,y & z" they dont hammer you to the same extent as if you tried to hide it. one thing the pros might give you a opinion on is doing a...
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    Direct Debit Questions

    I did this back in 05 and we had to jump through a lot of hoops, took about a month then and we had good support from the manager at our branch along with a good 5 year trading history at that time. For us both of these were key. If you are a direct debit originator they will give you a limit...
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    self employed - termination of contract

    Hard to say without seeing the contract but if its signed up to Dec 2012 then it sounds like a fixed term contract so it has to run until Dec 2012, to me it sounds like he wants to bring in a "jobbridger" and will look to get your husband to train him up. He might consider that training is not...
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    Backing Up Business Email To The Cloud

    how about creating an outlook rule that forwards everything to a gmail account?
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    Business name for sole trader

    You need to be careful that the business name doesnt infringe on a trademark So for example you couldnt setup a soft drinks company and call it Coca Cola as that name is trademarked, look to see if there name is a registered TM
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    Claiming for medical expenses - when?

    submit as part of your form 11 tax return
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    Setting up limited company - Which accountant?

    Why not use the accountant that reduced his price to €750 then?
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    Part Time Employee Tax Rates/Advice

    download quickpay free and let it do the calculations for you http://www.sage.ie/store/free-software/quickpay-free.aspx
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    Sole Trader - is a laptop a capital expense?

    I think it should be value based, i.e. if it costs less than say 2k its an expense.I've heard of people being told to write off a €99 euro inkjet printer over 8 year, claptrap tbh thats your "problem" you probably come from a background where code had to be complied in KBs, now developers are...
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    Sole Trader - is a laptop a capital expense?

    This is one area thats baldly need in reform, the useful life of any PC or laptop is no more than 3 years, anything after that is a bonus.
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    Sole Trader - is a laptop a capital expense?

    ha, as if a laptop that will last 8 years!
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    National Intern Scheme

    Make sure its a valid internship, we wouldnt want you to appear on http://slaves.ie/ :)
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    unscrupulous accountants acting as auditors

    Sorry, I didnt mean to imply that it was, but that the accountants would use that story as an explanation as to why the auditors company name was there and pocket the cash for themselves
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    unscrupulous accountants acting as auditors

    I quite agree but nowadays a lot of people will do things for cash
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    collecting debts abroad problem

    Have you any terms of sale with him, if you do what jurisdiction is applicable, i'd assume its Ireland. if so you could look at getting a judgement registered here and then enforced in his home country. Your solicitor would be best to advise you obviously
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