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Many thanks Liam, that is reassuring to know. Thanks for the pointers.

I'm a small business owner who set up a SAPS executive pension last year. The trustee was making noises for a while about the difficulties of navigating the IORPS II regulations and now they are telling me that they are shutting down my SAPS. I'm pretty upset at this news, especially as some of...

Good points, all. Many thanks.

Thanks both for the link, and for the clarification. I imagine a copy of a rental contract with a tenant would suffice to satisfy this requirement? Any idea on cryptocurrency restrictions?

Hi all I'm thinking of switching my executive pension to SSAP. I have heard that there are some restrictions around overseas property - could anyone point me to a link where I can see what those are? Secondly, are there any restrictions around holding cryptocurrencies in a SSAP? many thanks!

Parish priest is new - he doesn't really know the history. All the old priests are long gone.

Oh yes, the gravestones have their names. Council didn't seem too impressed with that. They even suggested that we may have to disinter the grave and do DNA testing. Less than helpful.

Thanks. Yes, we spoke to the caretaker who verbally confirmed that it was our family plot, but bizarrely wouldn't put anything in writing. It's unclear to me the relationship between the caretaker and the council - would they be an employee of the council? The undertaker was helpful and gave us...

A follow up question. Incredibly the local parish have no record of the burials of either of my grandparents, only of one of my grand-uncles. Somebody obviously messed up at the time of their deaths, but it's pretty amazing that neither of them are recorded. We even tried a neighbouring parish...

Our family have had a family plot in a country graveyard in the west of Ireland, since at least the 1960s. My grandparents are buried there, and a number of their siblings, and my parents always referred to it as the family plot, where they assumed to be buried themselves. Fortunately there...

Thanks for this. But I'm still confused how the industry reaches consensus on questions like these? If accountant A says Badges of Trade and accountant B says "like-kind exchanges" are not taxable, that's quite a diversity of opinion. What to do?

So far today, I have discovered (mostly from Reddit) that in Netherlands and Germany the tax on crypto is almost negligible, which makes me pretty unhappy about the Irish situation! Apart from that, this post from a US tax attorney raises the concept of "like-kind exchanges", which he says (in...

I'm not an accountant. What is the usual way the industry gets consensus on this? Do they approach Revenue directly for clarification? Are there usually a few court challenges by early adopters etc? I hate this not knowing - CGT is bad enough already (33%? get out of here!), but income tax at...

Aha! Very good question. And is a trade of bitcoin the same thing as a trade of litecoin etc? I would argue they are separate assets. Badges of trade is beyond my pay level - here's a UK guide, couldn't find an Irish one...

To further add to this topic, I asked accountant for advice on tax liability for crypto. He thinks that if the number of trades is sufficient to meet “badges of trade” criteria, that any income from crypto trading is liable for income tax. This was despite my protests that number of trades was...

Would appreciate some urgent guidance as I'm planning on renting my place (Dublin) this week! Here's the situation: Current tenants moved in Jan 2015 In Nov 2016, they gave me notice that they would move out in Jan 2017. I will be advertising the property next week once they move out. What...

No, she didn't show up. Neighbours told me that she was incredibly gifted at pulling the wool over social services eyes, even when it was clear to everyone that her child was in danger. I won the determination, it then went to criminal proceedings against her, which in fairness needed very...

Well, her name is the the PRTB's database with a decision against her.

Sorry to hear what happened to you, it's happened to me twice, and it sucks. I think that you could contact her last known place of work to see if she's still working there or if she has really left the country. Also, by documenting the case, you could save future landlords the pain of renting...

Thanks for the response. Well, regarding your last sentence, I certainly won't be getting top rent after this new law, that's for sure! I don't think your advice about the rent would go well, either with the RTB or my existing tenants. I cetainly wouldn't feel comfortable myself going down that...