Many people are unaware that you can go back up to four years in your claims for a tax refund.
People should keep doctors’ receipts, tuition fee receipts and any correspondence from Revenue. All of these will make the tax reclaim process so much easier.
If you are an Irish taxpayer who has paid medical bills on behalf of anyone – yourself, your parents, your children – in the last four years, then you are entitled to a refund.
Many people wrongly believe that the Home Carer Tax Credit is for those caring for other people’s children, the elderly or disabled people.
They don’t realise that it can be claimed where any housewife or house-husband works in the home, caring for their own children.
