Category Archives: Tax Tips

Take Home Pay in 2024

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What will be your take home pay in 2024? We are all budgeted out at this stage. I had enough after getting my 5th of 9 budget briefings. When deciding on a blog topic I asked myself what interests people the most. For me, it’s the amount of extra cash in my pocket. To pay

Tax Returns – 10 Last-Minute Tips

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We’ll look at 10 last-minute tips to help with your Income Tax returns. It’s a busy time of year in the office. Training is on hold. Tea breaks are shorter, and lunches just about happen. The Tax Return deadline is looming. Accounts for review and finalise. A few weeks to go till the deadline hits.

5 Tax Return Tips for 2022

Let’s have a look at 5 Income Tax return Tips for 2022. We are now at peak Corporation Tax return filing time. On Monday the focus will switch to Income Tax returns for 2022. All with the view of keeping our clients tax compliant and Revenue happy. Revenue want the Tax return to know how

Tax Tips for Farmers

Farm animals

Let’s explore some Tax Tips for Farmers. Podge is a good friend of mine and a client too. Back in my hurling days, I used to mark him in training and he in turn marked me too. Still have the scars on my back. War wounds he calls them. Young Podge is in employment and

Non-Resident Landlords – Beds are Burning

Burning money

Non-resident landlords – Beds are Burning. There’s a new tax system in town and it’s gunning for you. It will take money from you and give it to Revenue. And it will be up to you to get it back. The lyrics of the Midnight Oil song Beds are Burning are washing around in my

Tips to Save Corporation Tax

Save Money

Company Directors. Listen up. Tips to save Corporation Tax will be important to you in the coming months. The Corporation Tax [CT] deadline for companies with a 31 December 2022 year end is the 23rd of September. That is the last day to file your CT return and pay the balance owing for 2022. Let’s

Non-Resident Taxes – Times Are A-Changin’

Moving abroad

Like the Bob Dylan song, in the world of Non-Resident Taxes, the times are a-changin’. Not before time too as there was a lot wrong with the old system. But there’s no point looking into the past. It’s time to drive on and embrace the new. We will look at George and Amy Wong Non-Resident

Tax Tips for Accidental Landlords

stressed woman with a glass of wine

We will look at some tax tips for accidental landlords. We all hear about landlords exiting the market in their droves. A perfect storm of rising interest rates, rent pressure zones, and plenty of red tape. The tax system here can quickly squeeze out the already squeezed middle. The purpose of this is to help

Property Purchase in Trust

Property Purchase in Trust

I had a meeting on Monday that involved a property purchase in trust for a child. This isn’t something we would see often so I needed to do some prep and get more information. It turned out to be a very interesting meeting and has me doing some head scratching since. We will look at

Tax Credit Certs 2023 – Stranger Things

Tax credit cert

We investigate the weird world of tax credit certs for 2023 and the stranger things we have seen this year. When I say weird, I mean taxpayers expecting to see an increase in their net take-home pay. But the opposite happens. They get less and a lot less as you will see. We will go