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CGT Treatment of Anglo Irish Bank Share Losses

As an Anglo Irish Bank Shareholder, the value of your stake in the bank was not finalised on the nationalisation of the bank earlier this year. According to Minister of Finance Brian Lenihan an assessor would be appointed at a future date to decide on the treatment.
However from a tax point of view, and in [...]

Dental benefits from PRSI

Are you paying for visits to your dentist which you should be receiving as a benefit for paying PRSI or for having a medical card?

What’s Covered
In general, a normal person with healthy teeth will get one dental examination and two cleanings per year. You’re also entitled to significant cost reductions on fillings/extraction/root canal and host [...]

Non Principal Private Residence €200 tax

Have you paid the new Non Principal Private Residence Tax Charge?  The deadline for this charge is the 30th September.
You can pay it online from  https://www.nppr.ie/
All you need to pay this is your PPS number, address of property and, of course, a bank card to pay for it.
We’ve used it a few times for our [...]

Don’t bin service charges tax refunds

Are we throwing money in the bin by not claiming tax refunds for the cost of our waste disposal?
This is one of the more commonly claimed tax credits, but still a large % of home owners and renters miss out on this.
Very simply?  if you are paid any amount up €400 on waste disposal in [...]

Child Benefit – Proposed changes

The Commission on Taxation’s job was to make suggestions across the spectrum of tax and social payments and Child benefit is proving to be one of the most vexing issues. But they will be recommending to the Government next week that Child Benefit is made taxable. How would Taxing Child Benefit work?

Calculate my Mortgage Interest Relief

So you have a new/existing mortgage or loan relating to your home and want to know how much you are due in mortgage interest relief. there are 3 questions you need to ask yourself in relation to this:

Have I an eligible loan?
Am I a First Time Buyer (FTB)?
What are the rates of relief?

We have looked [...]

Mortgage Interest Relief – are you a 1st time Buyer?

So much changed for mortgage holders in the April 2009 emergency Budget. Many who previously had mortgage interest relief lost it, and for others the amount they received changed.
We have already looked at eligiblility in a previous post (Here). Once you have checked that you are eligible, the next step is to see [...]

Mortgage Interest Relief – is my loan eligible?

Following the emergency budget in April 2009, a number of changes were made to mortgage interest relief. These affected

Who is eligible for mortgage interest relief
How much relief you will get

We’re going to look at who is eligible for mortgage interest relief here.  In later posts, we will look at how much relief you are [...]

Medical Insurance tax credit

Probably the least understood of the common Tax Reliefs is the Medical Insurance Tax Relief – so many people miss out on this tax relief!
How does it work?
If you pay for Medical Insurance to an Insurer direct or through your employer, you will receive this relief at source. i.e. your premium is reduced, so you [...]

Are you paying the Income Levy when you should be Exempt?

The Income Levy was introduced for 2009 and within 4 months was doubled for most people in the April 2009 Budget.  But should you be paying Income levy?
It’s worth checking if you are exempt from the income levy.  You are exempt from the income levy if:

Your income for a year does not exceed €15,028 p.a.
You [...]

PAYE Taxpayers missing out on Tax Credits – Survey

The Irish Taxation Institute (ITI) in conjunction with Red C have released a survey of PAYE taxpayers in Ireland, with the following main points:

40% of Irish taxpayers are not claiming basic reliefs due to them
19% of Irish taxpayers are now using a Tax Service to handle their tax affairs
1/3 of respondants let their employer handle [...]

New Blog

Welcome to our new blog. Though we are open a while, we are all very excited to get our blog up and running.
Here, we will discuss money matters and tax relating to PAYE employment in Ireland.
But in particular we will pay attention to Tax Refunds and the things that help us get them such [...]

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