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Alcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol-related issues, is calling on the Government to implement budget measures that could earn the Exchequer up to €182 million in additional revenue and help reduce the estimated €3.7 billion in avoidable costs caused by alcohol-related harm each year.

The Government national four-year recovery plan is farcical and a complete destruction according to Sinn Féin councillor Rose Conway-Walsh.

CPOs - How much will the taxman take?

The weather didn’t suit the Australian rugby players on Tuesday evening but thankfully Munster gave us something to cheer about while the prospective loss of our economic sovereignty was hovering at the back of our minds. The long and the short is that we have made a complete mess of being a sovereign nation and while we can blame the politicians, the bankers, the Church, basically all the people we used to put faith in, the sad reality is that we all share the responsibility. We are the ones who elect politicians and we are the ones who lobby them to put parish pump politics ahead of the good of the country, naively believing that the satisfaction of our own greed will bring us security. Personal greed, and perhaps a neurotic fear of poverty, has brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. It has also prevented us developing a robust social conscience when it comes to paying taxes to ensure quality public services.

In the first of a series of occasional articles on topical tax issues, Tom Donnelly, an independent, professional, tax adviser based in Castlebar, outlines the potential benefits of transferring a business to a company.

Sports and community groups are slow to become approved and use tax relief for donations to stretch funding.

The country is insolvent with a deficit of €20bn and national debt of in excess of €300bn. We must find massive savings in current spending leading to a reduction in the deficit and thus a reduction in borrowing. Increasing taxes will have some albeit a limited benefit as they generate diminishing return in line with the increases levied. So we must close the gap elsewhere.

That time of the year has come around again for getting your tax affairs in order. There are various taxes that need to be filed and paid in the coming weeks. They include the following:

Mr Bertie Ahern TD.