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Mr Lynch said he intended to raise the issue in the Dáil, and would speak with Minister for Finance Michael Noonan in advance of the next budget to ask that the current system be amended. Under existing tax laws dating back to 1969, tenants renting a property from a landlord resident outside the State must withhold 20 per cent of the rent and remit this sum directly to the Revenue Commissioners on the landlord’s behalf. This includes tenants whose landlord is resident in Northern Ireland.
"IT’S A SAD, GREY morning in Youghal. As you walk along the town’s main street you pass Merricks department store, once the oldest in Ireland, which is lying empty after the last retailer moved out of the store’s former building a few months ago. Farther along is the Regal Cinema, which shut last year after 74 years in operation. The Devonshire Arms, one of two large hotels in the town, is hard to miss: it’s had its windows boarded up for months. The town has dozens more empty shopfronts, with dusty windows and peeling paintwork or “to let” signs, which used to host bustling toyshops, newsagents, supermarkets and pubs."
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The big lie you have been told is that if we preside over a default on Irish bank debt the financial markets will punish us by taking money out of the country.
This is wrong. The opposite will happen. Money will flow into the country as the markets will conclude that the Irish bank crisis is over and it’s time to invest in a country with huge growth potential.
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Last night, over a jar, the bankers told me that the flows of cash from Germany have been huge because the average well-to-do German is taking his savings out of the euro and putting them on deposit here in Switzerland. The fact that the Swiss banks normally offer no interest on deposits and still get huge inflows is indicative of the fragility at the heart of the euro.
They also explained that lots of money is coming from Ireland. These guys, who I worked with years ago, have never really seen any business from Ireland and certainly during the boom they looked on with a sense of trepidation because they had seen this before.
Now they are getting calls from Dublin on a daily basis.
They have concluded that this is because the banks and the Government can’t be trusted. These investment bankers — serious financial people — agree that the Irish taxpayer has no business bailing out the banks. At the table last night were two bondholders, men who invested in the Irish banks in the good times. They are now embarrassed because they were taken in by the Irish and European spin.
The Common Travel Area between Ireland and Britain is expected to end in two years time with the result that people travelling by air or sea between the two countries will require a passport.
"Irish budget airline Ryanair has said it is considering charging passengers for using the toilet while flying."
A respite from the gibbering neocons of the OpenRepublic (fascists!)
RYANAIR SAYS it is serious about plans to charge passengers for using the toilet on its aircraft.
“It’s going to happen,” chief executive Michael O’Leary told journalists yesterday about the proposal, which garnered huge publicity worldwide when he threw
Madam, – Just to be clear (as the Government seems to be in collective denial), the reason Fianna Fáil is doing badly in the polls and will do badly on June 5th is not because they are making “the hard decisions for economic recovery” but because they b
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