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Presumably you're a director of your ltd? Are you aware of Revenue rules regarding non-resident directors and also ordinary residence?

Allowable executive pension contribution will likely be higher depending on age, current pensions, etc. and tax won't be 50% but seems like an easy decision indeed, maybe biased here having done similar sums for myself in the past. Can't see this being an issue having invoiced companies in...

Couple of points as an IT consultant with a ltd. From Revenue perspective, you don't get to choose whether you're an employee or self-employed/freelance as per their guidelines Executive pension contribution limits are generous but nowhere near 200% of salary, you won't be able to contribute...

Which ones, are they UCITS ETFs by chance?

What was the mortgage rate 8 years ago though when you made this hypothetical investment? If you think 8% returns from this point are likely when the risk-free rate is 0, you're living in fantasy-land!

This is incorrect, PRIIPs applies to funds sold to EU retail investors regardless of the jurisdiction of fund or broker.

Are E-Trade just ignoring the PRIIPs regulations then?

Do you not understand the equity risk premium and that basing equity return expectations in the current zero-rate environment to the last 40/50 years when the risk-free rate was far higher is totally inappropriate?

Does this mean you're required to travel between your own company office in Munster and client office in Dublin, and if so is your company office separate to your home? Otherwise you might clarify the locations you're travelling between.

You sure can, it was a broker who got this AMC for me. As Brendan said, you need to accept the risk that tax rules will change if the plan is to avail of entrepreneur or retirement relief in the future. Also you probably know this already but Revenue have detailed rules on allowable travel...

Also self-employed company owner with executive pension (Zurich @ 0.75%) here, the first glaring question is what was the thinking and plan behind taking salary of only €30k on turnover of €120k??

employment quotas to avail of the various tax avoidance schemes like CAIA? also the total % of immigrant employees is quite a bit higher than 25% in the big MNCs

How far are you from retirement?

Hit net worth target at 39 and probably the main contributors to getting there faster were: 1. switching from employee to self-employed contracting 2. investing heavily in USD and US stocks up to around 2010 when € was strong 3. then buying a city-centre apartment after the crash here

Firstly what's your employment status based on the Revenue criteria?

Would also like to vote for such a party @Brendan Burgess but don't see how it would get any more than a tiny number of votes, it seems very clear from a review of Irish politics over the last 20 years that the vast majority of the electorate here consists of very irresponsible people. The...

@Designjet a simpler and more diversified alternative would be to put it into a life company investment fund instead.

@Colm Fagan that may be due to the apparent lack of any specifics in your first post to question or challenge though, for example what are your 2025 projections for total electric car sales, average sale price, Tesla market share %, net profit margin, etc. etc.

If the American company and its subsidiaries are not registered and have no presence in Ireland, there is absolutely nothing Revenue can do to compel them to pay tax. You seem to be assuming this person is an employee as per the Revenue guidelines, but as a fully remote worker they quite...

Of course not, in this case the person can only be self-employed.