Having online income cheques, sent to a relative, tax implications?

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Hi, I'm living abroad at the moment. I earn a couple of hundred $ a month with Amazon.

Amazon send payment by cheque, and, I've tried to have the cheques lodged here, I'm in China, but they won't lodge them.

I can set up someone else as payee on my Amazon account.

If I was to set up a relative, or friend, as payee on the cheques, is that ok for them from a tax point of view?

When they get the cheques, I want them to just lodge them into my Irish account.

Alternativly, I can have them sent to me here, in China, and then I can endorse them, and send them back to Ireland... this will take an extra month though...

So, I'm really just wondering, is there any issue, making the cheques out to a relative, or friend?

Thanks
 
Why would you make your relative out to be a payee? Just have them sent to their address and have them lodge them. no need to change any names on anything.
If you make out the cheques to your relative, I'm pretty sure Revenue would regard that as income for your relative. What your relative does with the money after is probably immaterial.
And in fact, making cheques out to your relative to be cashed for your benefit sounds awfully close to money-laundering???
 
I did send a cheque already to a friend, and he had trouble paying it into my account, he said in the end, he had to go back and pretend to be me... signed my name.

Are you sure there's nothing I need to do to the cheque?

Like, sign the back or something?

Amazon only pay bank transfers to usa accounts.
 
Yes. If you sign the back of the cheque there is no issue about having this paid into your account. In fact there should be no need to endorse the cheque if it is paid into the account of the Payee.
 
44brendan said:
Yes. If you sign the back of the cheque there is no issue about having this paid into your account. In fact there should be no need to endorse the cheque if it is paid into the account of the Payee.
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Thanks, will just do that so.
 
If the cheque is being lodged to the account of the payee. There is no need to sign anything. Your mate can just stick it in a quick-lodgement envelope and be done.

There is only an issue if the cheque is to be cashed or lodged to an account with a different name than that on the cheque.
 
In our bank (B of I) they have taken away the quick lodge facility and changed to machine lodgement requiring a card.
 
Jeez they just make it harder and harder!! Is that something new BoI are doing?

My local branch (Sandyford) still has quick lodge facility. Maybe find another branch.
 
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