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Currencyfair, which I have used a lot over many years, has disabled its auction-type marketplace which was my sole reason for using it. Reading between the lines, holding customer balances caused a regulatory problem. Is there any alternative that allows an auction approach or forex limit orders...

Yes I replied too hastily, Interactive Investor is aimed mainly at UK investors and is not relevant to this discussion. I have not dealt with Interactive Brokers, it appears to list 10 Ireland bonds under "non-US sovereign bonds"; the details are not available to a non-account holder. But only...

Yes I have an account at Interactive Brokers, bought recently by "abrdn" for £1.5 billion, which shows the value in charging clients. No bonds available online. Telephone dealing is possible.

I have invested in Ireland 1% 15/5/26 and Ireland 0.2% 15/5/27. To me it seems these short dated low coupon bonds are a good once-off opportunity to get a CGT-free gain with low risk. These are intended to be held to maturity so interest rate rises before maturity are unlikely to be relevant...

Regarding the question asked above about a person aged 77: I see on the National Insurance website that a man born before 5/4/1951 or a woman born before 5/4/1953 can only make contributions going back 6 years maximum. Eligible persons born after those dates cannot make contributions for the...

Very liquid market. Short term T-bills are offering reasonable interest rates with low transaction costs and no risk (and not liable to US Estate Tax if you die!).

Bluefin, I think you would find that using Taxback (say) to do this for you would not be economic unless the figures are quite substantial. There is a US company that quoted me, but unless individual dividends are in the multi thousands it would not be economic. The sad fact is that everyone...

JPD, French dividend withholding tax rate (absent treaty relief) was reduced from 30% in 2018 and 2019 to 28% in 2020. "Send them to the income tax office that deals with your income tax": Well I only ever deal with ROS. I have not dealt with a physical office for many years. I was hoping to...

Resurrecting this thread, I have completed the French Forms 5000 and 5001 to reclaim excess French dividend withholding tax for 2019, and claim the 15% rate in the France-Ireland treaty. This has to be signed by the "foreign tax authority", i.e. the Irish Revenue. Does anyone know what section...

I don't want to sound churlish, but the circumstances that have led me to register another Irish LP are very specific to the situation, with family partners residing in multiple countries. This is not about CAT, and has non-tax purposes. The capital of the partnership will depend on the...

Brendan I don't like to sound dismissive on your excellent forum, however I need to reply to your question without answering it. There are very good reasons for forming this family limited partnership, but I am hardly going to discuss these on a public forum! You may rest assured that I know...

I'm forming a family investment partnership, it appears I will have to get it an LEI entity identifier to hold securities. Has anyone info on the least-cost supplier of LEIs in Ireland? Online prices vary wildly ....

Sometimes I make trips where I can fly myself out of the country. Until now I have had a UK-issued travel insurance that did not have the normal exclusion of non-scheduled aviation. Due to Brexit this can't be renewed, even though the insurance company involved was German. Enquiries of Irish...

I have a number of online broker platform accounts, the only dividend "certificates" available are annual lists of all my dividends paid via each platform. These are not certificates in the sense of paper confirmation from company X that it has has paid amount Y less tax to shareholder Z...

Thanks Daniel - no that was not what I meant. What I meant might be illustrated by imagining having a foreign currency bank account, say sterling, with numerous debit/credit entries during the year. Now suppose you make one particular withdrawal, and you need to calculate the historical...

Does anyone have a way (e.g. a macro) for calculating FIFO gains/losses in euros, where personal amounts are spent in foreign currencies? Due to travel and other activities outside Ireland I have hundreds of non-euro transactions each year; in principle each expenditure, however small, is the...

I am looking at importing a specific 2009/2010 Porsche from England, but before buying I need to have some rough idea as to what the VRT liability will be. Otherwise turning up at a VRO in Ireland opens up an unlimited liability to a capricious VRT assessment. There are strangely no Porsche...