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With the economic downturn and turmoil in the financial markets continuing, investors in Mayo should follow three simple steps when considering their investment strategy. This was the message from David Leydon, investment expert with Ireland’s largest and most trusted insurance company, Hibernian Aviva, who was speaking in Mayo this week.

The Revenue Commissioners have warned of the existence of a fraudulent e-mail purporting to come from Revenue seeking personal information from taxpayers in connection with a tax refund. The e-mail asks the recipient to submit personal details including date of birth and debit/credit card details. This e-mail did not issue from Revenue.

On March 1 the pension levy was imposed on all workers in the Civil Service, Local Authorities, HSE, VEC’s, non commercial semi state bodies, An Garda Siochána and the Defence Forces. Cllr Noel Frawley states that this is not a pension levy but rather a tax on workers wages to pay for our now deeply mortgaged country.

With all the press coverage credit unions have been receiving in the past few months, some good and some bad, St Brigid’s Credit Union would like to take this opportunity to assure its members of how safe their money is.

ISME, the Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association has described this week’s Budget as savage and a missed opportunity, which will do nothing to stimulate enterprise or assist in maintaining employment.

Last week’s article looked at the sources of grant finance available to new and start-up enterprises. This week’s article will look at alternative sources of finance.

Surely, one must have a degree of pity for poor Fianna Fáil councillors and candidates who will have to knock on doors and defend Tuesday’s Budget. Anger levels are already at breaking point and the Government’s decision to target parents rather than pensioners this time, will profoundly change the political landscape in Mayo for years to come.

The top financial resolutions for 2009 are budgeting money better and saving regularly for a rainy day, according to research conducted for AIB by RED C.

Some political commentators have adjudged last week’s budget was a success because it avoided on-street protests. The October budget got pensioners and students out with placards. The February public sector income levy resulted in a large Dublin march. Politicians say the public response to the latest budget has been silence. This should be even more scary to Government backbenchers.

Westport deputy Michael Ring spoke in the Dáil last week, seeking clarification about the number of people engaged in commercial activity, including the operation of a farm, who had applied for pension entitlements.