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Thursday 29 October 2020
Paschal Donohoe says 37,000 employers have signed up for the new wage subsidy scheme.
Taxpayers can claim back 20% of their spend on food and accommodation as a tax credit.
A top accountancy body has called for definitive guidance from the government.
The Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme initially excluded people who were proprietary directors of a company.
Insolvency experts are expecting to be deluged as a result of the pandemic.
A Department of Finance spokesman said they believed the issue had been largely nipped in the bud.
The news comes at the end of a turbulent season for the club.
The search was carried out this morning in Tuam.
The details of the case are disclosed in a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruling.
The PAC was told the list proved ‘beneficial’ to Revenue.
A 44 year-old woman was arrested at the scene.
Edmund Honohan has said there are many similarities to be drawn with the Apple case being taken.
Revenue has scaled up its Customs IT systems to handle the increased transaction levels.
A new division will manage the affairs of people and companies who can’t be monitored by the Revenue’s Large Cases Division.
Applus, the company which currently operates the test, made €6.5 million in profit last year, down 20% from 2016.
The MV Shingle was seized in June 2014, when a shipment of over 32 million cigarettes and 4,000kg of tobacco was found on board.
1890 numbers are only treated as low cost options for calls from landlines.
The goods worth roughly €18,000 were seized in Rosslare over the past two days.
A medical consultant, a fisherman and a locksmith also featured on the quarterly list of tax defaulters.
No arrests were made in relation to the seizure.
‘People often assume that it is a free telephone service until their credit runs out or when they receive their bill at the end of the month.’
Aidan Conroy’s truck and trailer were seized at Dublin Port in August 2015.
It’s unclear why Revenue believed that the individual owed the State outstanding tax on a number of properties in another county.
The Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe told the Dáil that there are no plans to legislate as the case was dealt with successfully.
The message tells people that they have a certain amount of time to access credit they are entitled to.
There were also a number of settlements between other individuals and Revenue that totalled over €1m.
A 39-year-old woman has been arrested.
Last night the Labour party said that it will abolish charge on the first €72,000 of individual income.
The number of individuals who have mandatory reductions on pensions or wages has doubled since 2013.
The company will supply information to the Revenue Commissioners dating back to May 2014.
In a separate operation, gardaí discovered an elaborate grow house in Country Meath with €750,000 worth of cannabis plants.
The drugs were found in a Lithuanian registered van.
Exchanges took place last August and in January and February.
Some 358 Irish-linked accounts were revealed in leaked details of HSBC’s Swiss operations.
The Revenue Commissioners are investigating if any of this activity was illegal.
Revenue has extended the deadline after a large volume of calls in recent days.
People who have not yet paid their local property tax have been urged to make contact with the Revenue Commissioners.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
Allegations of a major cover-up are spreading from politicians to government officials.
By midnight yesterday, over 397,000 income tax returns for 2013 were filed.
MEMBERS OF THE Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) yesterday voted to take industrial action unless the government addresses several issues related to Covid-19 in schools by 30 October.
The issues in question include the need for a comprehensive testing programme, rapid testing and turnaround times, along with resources for schools to ensure continuation of learning if schools are closed or people are self-isolating.
The ASTI president Ann Piggott said: “ASTI members are clearly stating that they want schools to remain open for students during this pandemic.”
She said teachers are “demanding that the government step up” and provide solutions to these issues.
So, today we want to know: Would you support teachers striking over Covid-19 safety concerns?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
The goalposts – and polling analysis – have shifted since 2016, Noel Rock writes.
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