# revenue-commissioners - Monday 7 January, 2013
# Property Tax
# Property Tax
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but here’s what homeowners are facing when the new tax comes into effect later this year.
# Property Tax
# Property Tax
Homeowners will be given guidance as to how much of the local property tax they are liable for but will be invited to self-assess during administration of the charge later this year.
# revenue-commissioners - Sunday 6 January, 2013
# Household Charge
# Household Charge
Michael Noonan says the system is an “important assurance for compliant tax payers” that non-payment is not an option.
# revenue-commissioners - Saturday 22 December, 2012
# Insolvency
# Insolvency
It was a bad year for businesses set up in 2008 though as one third of them failed.
# revenue-commissioners - Saturday 8 December, 2012
# Your Say
# Your Say
The law that will bring in the property tax next year makes residential property owners liable for the household charge but should those who rent pay it instead?
# revenue-commissioners - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
# Contraband
# Contraband
The cigarettes would have posed a loss to the Exchequer of about €120,000, and were disguised as ‘advertising material’.
# revenue-commissioners - Thursday 22 November, 2012
# Tax
# Tax
The tax was introduced in 2010 to target wealthy Irish exiles who earn more than €1 million a year and also have assets of over €5 million in Ireland.
# revenue-commissioners - Monday 12 November, 2012
# Seizure
# Seizure
A man in his 60s has been arrested in connection with the seizure.
# revenue-commissioners - Thursday 25 October, 2012
# Revenue
# Revenue
The cash was found concealed in the clothing of the 55-year-old man as he attempted to board a flight to Vienna.
# revenue-commissioners - Saturday 20 October, 2012
# Fuel
# Fuel
The Revenue Commissioners have warned that the illegal trade in oil laundering represents a serious threat to the Exchequer.
# revenue-commissioners - Monday 15 October, 2012
# Fuel Laundering
# Fuel Laundering
The Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association says new licence structures will cost them time and money.
# revenue-commissioners - Monday 1 October, 2012
# Laundering
# Laundering
The plants had a combined capacity to launder 20 million litres of fuel a year.
# revenue-commissioners - Monday 24 September, 2012
# Property Tax
# Property Tax
The Department of Environment has dismissed claims that the report by the expert group examining the issue is being suppressed.
# Seized
# Seized
The cigarettes, of brands which are not otherwise sold in Ireland, were stored in a shipment described as ‘furniture’.
# revenue-commissioners - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
# Seizure
# Seizure
Two separate operations have yielded a seizure of nearly four million cigarettes.
# Revenue
# Revenue
Eight tonnes of toxic sludge was recovered at the plant in Clontibret, which Revenue says cost the exchequer about €1m a year.
# revenue-commissioners - Friday 14 September, 2012
# Defaulters
# Defaulters
The Revenue Commissioner has published the latest list of tax defaulters.
# revenue-commissioners - Friday 31 August, 2012
# Drugs
# Drugs
Around 500kgs of cannabis resin were discovered on a yacht yesterday afternoon by Spanish authorities.
# revenue-commissioners - Thursday 30 August, 2012
# Target Express
# Target Express
Junior minister Seán Sherlock has pledged funds from the state insolvency fund to support the workers’ redundancy payments.
# revenue-commissioners - Wednesday 29 August, 2012
# Target Express
# Target Express
Ex-employees are holding a sit-in at the Cork depot with eight workers spending the night there.
# revenue-commissioners - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
# Target Express
# Target Express
Cork depot workers say they first heard about their jobs being lost on the news.
# Target Express
# Target Express
The freight company ceased trading yesterday with the loss of 390 jobs. The owner blamed the tax authorities for the closure.
# Target Express
From The42
# Target Express
The county says it is “disappointed to learn that Target Express have been left with no other choice but to cease trading.”
# Your Say
# Your Say
The Department of Finance says it’s up to the Revenue Commissioners to decide how it’ll be levied. Should it be at source?
# Property Tax
# Property Tax
Though ministers will decide how the tax rate will be decided, it’s up to Revenue to see whether it may be deducted with PAYE.
# revenue-commissioners - Monday 27 August, 2012
Paul Appleby has ruled out investigating M&J Wallace’s tax under-declaration – but his successor could still launch a probe.
# revenue-commissioners - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
# Household Charge
# Household Charge
LGMA chief executive Paul McSweeney says the household charge is essential, as payments top the €100 million mark.
# revenue-commissioners - Monday 13 August, 2012
# Household Charge
# Household Charge
The agency responsible for collecting the charge says it’s matching its records with those of other state agencies.
# revenue-commissioners - Thursday 9 August, 2012
# Take 5
# Take 5
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
# Your Say
# Your Say
Labour chairman Colm Keaveney has suggested that if property tax can’t be properly introduced next year, the household charge should be increased. What do you think?
# 9 At 9
# 9 At 9
Nine things to know this morning…
# revenue-commissioners - Tuesday 31 July, 2012
# Companies
# Companies
Half of those stress-tested by the credit and risk analyst also showed signs of being on the brink of failure.
# revenue-commissioners - Monday 30 July, 2012
# Taxes
# Taxes
A legal tweak means people using Revenue’s online services can pay income tax by VISA or MasterCard for the first time.
# revenue-commissioners - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
# Taxman
# Taxman
The taxman, and not the LGMA, will be responsible for ensuring full compliance with the tax.
# revenue-commissioners - Wednesday 18 July, 2012
# Warning
# Warning
If you get an email offering you a €278 tax refund, steer clear – sadly, it’s too good to be true.
# revenue-commissioners - Wednesday 11 July, 2012
# Mick Wallace
# Mick Wallace
The Dáil’s Committee on Members’ Interests has said that the independent TD has not provided sufficient information for it to establish whether or not it can investigate his tax affairs.
# revenue-commissioners - Wednesday 27 June, 2012
# Mick Wallace
# Mick Wallace
The independent TD is being investigated by the Members Interests Committee after revelations about his company’s under-declaration of VAT.
# revenue-commissioners - Friday 15 June, 2012
# Mick Wallace
# Mick Wallace
We’ve done a quick calculation of how long it might take for half of the TD’s salary to cover the €2,133,708 settlement.
# revenue-commissioners - Friday 8 June, 2012
# Mick Wallace
# Mick Wallace
Both Joan Collins and Thomas Pringle believe that evading taxes is entirely separate to rejecting an austerity agenda.
# Mick Wallace
# Mick Wallace
The Wexford TD could either face bankruptcy action or a criminal prosecution – both of which would see him quit the Dáil.
