Registering for vat in Ireland for start up businesses-the essentials

Starting a business? You may have to register for vat if you are an accountable person. An accountable person is a taxable person and includes sole traders, partnerships, and companies. Obligation to register You are only obliged to register for vat if your turnover exceeds certain thresholds which are as follows: €37,500 for persons supplying … Read more

Costs follow the event is the usual rule in legal proceedings-High Court awards costs to insurance company

When you bring legal proceedings the question of costs should be at the forefront of your mind. And the legal principle that ‘costs follow the event’. This could be put another way: winner takes all-that is, the loser will nearly always have to discharge the winner’s legal costs. This February 2021 decision in the High … Read more

The overlooked third party in the relationship between purchaser and solicitor when buying property

Some years ago, the late Princess Diana, in a television scoop interview with journalist Martin Bashir on Channel 4, told Bashir that “there are three people in this relationship”.  This was a reference to the breakdown of her marriage to Prince Charles and to Camilla Parker Bowles with whom Charles was having a relationship. This … Read more

Starting an Online Business Creating and Selling your Own Digital Products Online

Have you ever thought about selling your own digital product online? For example, your own ebook or a course. The idea is not nearly as far fetched or unrealistic as you might think. I myself have done it as I sell my own books-Kindle and print-online through the Amazon platform and I sell the audiobook … Read more