REDUNDANCY TAX REFUND ? Q. I recently lost my job. I understand I may be entitled to a tax refund – how do I go about getting one? A. Sorry to hear this. For PAYE workers your tax liability is spread out evenly over the year. To ensure that this is achieved, your tax...
SAVING FOR YOUR CHILDREN Q – We have two girls aged 7 and 5. We have not made any provision for their education though they will both be going to a non fee paying local secondary school. But already the extramural activity costs are mounting up and we need to motivate...
Can you guess how much 12 bottles of Le Pin 1982, which cost €280 the year it was released, are worth today? The answer is € 108,456. That’s a gain of over 387 times the original investment in 34 years. Previous best vintage years include 1959 and 1961. Naturally, not...
An analysis of recent trends in the residential market shows that the total number of properties for sale at any one time is continuing to fall. The figure by property website Daft.ie is at its lowest point since February 2007, with fewer than 24,000 homes for sale...
BANK OVERDRAFTS Q – My bank have stopped my overdraft facility. It was only € 2,000 and I only exceeded it recently. Can they do this ? I have been put on short time by my company and my wife lost her part time job. They have told me they are switching this to a term...
Last month I reported that VHI were set to increase premiums and that the trend among insurers was to announce increases every 6 months on average rather than annually. Laya and GloHealth have now both announced that they are hiking up their prices, just a week after...
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