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    Is the 41% Exit Tax Soon to be Scrapped? Michael McGrath to Review

    I really don't see this as that complicated tbh. ETFs should be just treated as cgt applicable assets. So they should be subject to cgt on disposal, and dividend tax on paid dividends, like any share currently is. Simples. Further gains &/or losses incurred on ETFs should be able to be offset...
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    Is the 41% Exit Tax Soon to be Scrapped? Michael McGrath to Review

    Looks like gov & revenue are finally looking to review the disposal of funds & etfs tax treatment. (About time !!) https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/tax/crippling-41pc-exit-tax-on-funds-to-be-reviewed-says-michael-mcgrath-42337257.html
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    buying forestry as an individual or in partnership?

    Thanks PMU, Would you believe I've been looking to invest in timber & forestry for longer back than your previous post from 10 yrs ago!! Unfortunately I didn't do it to to any great extent (other than a Forestry fund or 2, which only turned out so so), which is a big investing regret tbh...
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    buying forestry as an individual or in partnership?

    Surely there's scope for an Irish forestry REIT? It seems the obvious way for non farmers to invest in this asset class in Ireland. Here's an article on a few of the overseas forest & timberland REIT options Investing in Timberland REITs...
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    90% of Cork HAP inspections fail

    In one of the reports I got they were looking for my electrics to be certified by an electrician (this was on a 2004 high end apartment, that never had any modifications)? And for the plumbing to be certified?? Since the apartment was never modified and all of these services were certified on...
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    Key Post Why I am selling my 5 investment properties.

    Boyddbookman said: "it is no longer possible to make a long term BTL investment for fear of significant rule changes.... this simply introduces too much risk and uncertainty for a landlord who may have heavy borrowing costs without any degree of comfort that the landlord will be able to sell the...
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    Thinking of selling a rental property? You should probably get a move on...

    Just keep sending them links for rental properties you source for them. Keep asking them ' have they found a place yet?' And simultaneously go the rtb route, as it's your only last option really. Good luck.
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    Very low rent in Rent Pressure Zone

    Yes, but this isn't the inflation in the total actual rents charged in the rental market. This just tracks the rents asked foron the properties that are offered for rent in that year. This will include a far higher proportion of new build and upgraded properties offered for rent (versus the...
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    The stock market never goes down anymore

    I think the battery technology you may be referring to are solid state batteries. These may very well be the next frontier in energy storage. The economist did a very good feature on this area earlier this year/ maybe late last year, with the pros & cons of existing & emerging technologies...
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    Circumventing the harsh Irish investment climate

    Is there any scope/ precedent for setting up a simple investment company or trust offshore to bypass penal Irish investment taxes? So an investor has funds to invest, for arguments sake say €1m . Rather than be hit with the horrendous levels of tax listed by the OP above , could an investor...
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    Very low rent in Rent Pressure Zone

    The government and it's agencies have managed to make a total mess of the rental market tbh. The issue is & was always supply. These measures are populist, ineffective, movable goal post panic inducing moves that probably don't serve either tenants well or landlords in the medium term As...
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    REITS General opinions.

    Do all of these shareholders enjoy extra tax advantages over retail investors? I.e. do they need to pay any tax on dividends??
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    REITS General opinions.

    That's a good question in some ways I suppose, and i haven't been following the IRES Reit specifically tbh.. But it's the discount to NAV and potential future return on investment that they're (and any investor) is most interested in, so in that sense price is the wrong metric to be judging...
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    Shiller's Excess CAPE Yield

    And this is exactly what is happening. Interest rates are now rising, central banks were slow to react to controlling inflation, which is their predominant priority in helping manage money supply. This happened imho because of the very understandable reason of being in the midst of a global...
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    Coronavirus - latest global news - discuss Irish news the other thread

    My god, this is crazy imho. These countries surely can clearly see what works & what doesn't at this stage e.g. social distancing, masks, Antigen tests and effective vaccines are the planks of an effective covid management programme. There may(...) be some excuse for China, but places like...
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    REITS General opinions.

    REITs seem to me to be tailor made for a pension investment (as dividends won't be taxed, and they're a steady utility type of investment). Given the discount to NAV that many of them exhibit from time to time, private equity will swoop on them if they drop below value thresholds. And private...
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    Books - Investment/Personal Financial Planning - Irish/International Perspective

    I really like the little book series on investing: E.g. 'The Little Book of Common Sense Investing' by John Bogle is excellent, as is the 'The little book of Value Investing'. Rory Gillen's book '3 Steps to Investment Success' is very good from an Irish perspective as you say, but I would...
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    The Perils of Shorting: A Real Life Example

    Absolutely. Also Tesla now face a number of huge challenges, that shareholders would really like to see it's founder, driver & visionary fully focus on e.g. - competition from awesome car companies like Porsche, Mercedes, Lexus etc in high end electric car production, roll out & marketing...
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    Shiller's Excess CAPE Yield

    A few other articles & links on Robert Shiller's Excess CAPE Yields fyi: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/robert-shillers-two-stock-market-indexes-are-telling-wildly-different-valuation-stories-heres-why-11630493276 https://moneyandmarkets.com/robert-shiller-excess-cape-yield/...
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    Shiller's Excess CAPE Yield

    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/personal-finance/stocktake-just-how-expensive-are-us-stocks-1.4782237 Interesting piece here in the Irish Times, weighing up how expensive stock market fundamentals are relatively using the Robert Shiller's measure of Excess CAPE Yield ( ~CAPE yield less...
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