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Not a lot of work for a lot of money.
The expertise that you refer to, does this mean that the guy could have charged six grand for this and put it down to having studied in a different college which was more expensive?
I think this whole expertise issue is bullshit for what was a very simple piece of worked which almost certainly could have been achieved for free on AAM (I'm sure you don't like the sound of that!)
What makes you think the price would have been different had he done so.The obvious problem is that the guy didn't ask for the price up front - seems to be a common problem people have with accountants and solicitors.
You can also stop laughing Tommy as I have my house built by professional tradesmen who didn't charge an arm and a leg,
So the accountant is to blame for both the solicitors fee and the tax bill? Come on...my brother's take home pay is just over 300 euro/wk so its not difficult to see how you would be upset when someone charges you 2 weeks pay for a calculation on top of 5 weeks pay by a solicitor to register the land and then then revenue
want most of the rest of the years wages in CGT just because my brother was kind enough to give me a site
I note that you didn't respond to the specific question I raised regarding how much work would have been involved ie. half an hour etc.
Agreed, but the use of labels such as arrogant, bullshit etc might be judged to have crossed the line of attacking the person giving the viewpoint rather than attacking the viewpointI didn't think that this was such a sensitive forum that use of the word bullshit was disallowed.
I do however have a major problem when accountants start assuming that they have the same status as brain surgeons
No - why should they if the type of work they do does not lend itself to scale fees? Remember that no two companies or individuals have exactly the same requirements, especially where advisory services are concerned. Would you prefer if Occasional, with his limited resources and relatively straightforward CGT query, had to pay the same advisory fee as a large scale developer with a much more complex query or a landowner who needs CGT advice before deciding to sell a field for €10m? BTW, in industries where professional scale fees do apply and are publicly advertised (solicitors and hairdressers, to name two) there does not appear to be much benefit to the consumer in the form of lower costs.And BTW do you know of any accountants that have price lists on their walls?
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