Taxpayers have a little more time when it comes to submitting their Capital Gains Tax (CGT) assessments for 2012. By calculating any gains made in the current year, there is still time to reduce your tax bill by availing of valuable CGT reliefs or even selling assets which, if their sale were to generate tax […]
Land Registry Fees Order 2012
PENSIONERS, parents and homeowners are targeted in a stinging new report by the IMF. The international monetary watchdog recommends a host of new taxes and cutbacks which would hurt ordinary households in the pocket. But Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he would not follow their recommendation to impose a penal property tax. Mr Noonan, who […]
TWO men were arrested yesterday as they tried to make their way to a safe house after a criminal was shot five times in the head at his step-brother’s wedding. Robert Sheehan (21) was in a critical condition last night after a gunman repeatedly shot him early yesterday morning as he smoked a cigarette outside […]
SACKED haulage workers at the tax debt-ridden company Target Express have vowed to continue a sit-in at depots until they get unpaid wages. Seamus McBrien, the chief executive, claimed he was forced to cease trading after Revenue Commissioners froze its accounts and refused to strike a deal on money owed. It is understood he is […]
FIONA REDDAN The ‘mumpreneur’ phenomenon evolved as a way for women to combine a fulfilling family life with a career – and now Enterprise Ireland wants to get these innovators to think about expanding their businesses WHEN LULU O’Sullivan was setting up her online gifts company GiftsDirect.com some 23 years ago, the term “mumpreneur” hadn’t […]
STEPHEN COLLINS Dominating views in an ‘Irish Times’ poll include images of cows, grass, and friendly people THE MAJORITY of Germans view Ireland through green-tinted spectacles with images of beautiful countryside, farm animals and wet weather predominating, according to the findings of the poll conducted by The Irish Times in both countries. What is striking […]
THE under-30s have masterminded a conspiracy to have people believe that technology is more complicated than it really is. That’s according to 70-year-old rugby pundit and technophile George Hook, who yesterday went to the epicentre of Dublin’s computer heartland — Google — to encourage more over-50s to crack the internet. Launching this year’s Silver Surfer […]
One of the country’s best-known five-star hotels, Dromoland Castle, recorded a pre-tax profit last year. New returns show that Dromoland Castle (Holdings) Ltd recorded the €51,839 pre-tax profit after sustaining a pre-tax loss of €53,569 in 2010. The Co Clare hotel returned to pre-tax profit after revenues increased by 3pc from €10.9m to €11.3m in […]
THERE are growing fears that Ulster Bank is positioning itself to eventually exit the Republic of Ireland market after admitting it may seek to be regulated in the UK and is planning to shut some branches here. Ulster Bank has strongly denied that the developments are part of a move out of the Republic, but […]