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Legislation paving the way for Theresa May to start the Brexit process will be published on Thursday. The first salvo in the parliamentary battle will be fired as ministers produce a Bill which will allow the UK to trigger Article 50, the formal procedure for leaving the European Union. The government was forced to draw […]

Hopes have been raised that rules limiting the amount of mortgage lending by credit unions may be relaxed. Credit unions have limits imposed on them, with the value of their overall loan books restricting what they can issue as mortgages, but the Central Bank said it was reviewing the rules. The move to review the […]

Plans for a new town with 3,000 homes in blocks of up to 50 metres high and office, commercial and retail space for 8,000 workers have been unveiled by Dublin City Council. The Poolbeg West planning scheme incorporates some 34 hectares of land south of the Dublin Docklands beside Ringsend, and a film studio is […]

Enterprise Ireland has announced a new €750,000 fund created to support start-up activity across all sectors. The Competitive Start Fund (CSF) provides entrepreneurs with the critical early stage funding to test the market for their products and services. The fund – which provides €50,000 in equity funding for each successful applicant – allows for start-ups […]

The combined deficit of defined-benefit pension schemes in companies listed on Ireland’s stockmarket soared to €4.5bn last year – a 50pc increase on the shortfall in 2015. The widening deficit on Iseq firms was propelled by falling yields on corporate bonds, according to a report published by global consulting group Mercer this morning. The huge […]

The revenue commissioners have encouraged taxpayers to use online services when filing tax returns over the coming weeks and months. People filing revenue declarations can log on to the revenue website and use the PAYE Services function in the “my Account” section, Revenue says the online offering makes the process easier and more convenient, and […]

The 400,000 people renewing their private health insurance this month could be paying as much as €3,000 a year more for their private health insurance than they need to, Sunday Independent analysis has found. Most at risk of overpaying are those who have been on the same plan for three or more years – and […]

In the first half of 2016, just 3,600 of us, or 0.06pc, switched our current account to another bank. This is a far cry from the first half of 2014, when over 26,000 customers switched, although this was mainly due to the exit of Danske Bank and ACC Bank from the current account market. “The […]

Question: My landlord has just sent myself and my flatmate a letter informing us that the rent is being increased from March.We think this is very unfair and understood it wasn’t allowed due to the rent freeze. He says otherwise and even though we haven’t had an increase in two years, I thought it couldn’t […]

Question: I didn’t get a reminder last year about the property tax and my neighbour has just told me that it’s past the deadline, which he was notified about. To be honest, I forgot about it. Can I get an extension and was there an issue with notifications? When I was working, I normally paid […]