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 […]

It has been a while in coming, but from December 1st some 326,000 self-employed people will be entitled to long-term sick pay, giving the safety net of State income support to this cohort for the first time. The invalidity pension, paid at a weekly rate of €198.50, with possible increases for an adult dependant and […]

Revenue is preparing a crackdown on thousands of engineers and IT professionals after uncovering “deliberate understatement” of tax by those who have set up companies to trade as independent contractors but work for a single client. The planned swoop, notified by revenue to tax advisers last week will concentrate initially on Cork, Limerick, Kerry and […]