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    Is any evidence required when declaring a capital loss to Revenue

    I always wonder at that. Back in the day it would have been hard to fake a company's letterhead on paper. Today I could hack together a PDF in minutes. However, if that's what passes for evidence I'm more than happy.
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    Is any evidence required when declaring a capital loss to Revenue

    What would serve as evidence? Broker accounts are all online only. Would statements in PDF form be adequate?
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    Is any evidence required when declaring a capital loss to Revenue

    I'm pretty good on declarations to Revenue, in fact squeaky clean. I had a large capital loss two years ago which I declared, and have been carrying forward. I'll have another one this year. I can see why Revenue wouldn't be sticklers for evidence when I'm handing over money for capital gains...
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    Neighbours installed cables in my garden

    The neighbours have been building an extension for four years (!) and have not been in residence throughout this entire time. They adjoin us on a terrace. Three months ago their builder arrived in our front garden, ran Sky dish and Eir fibre cables (with the Open Eir installers in attendance)...
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    Paper or Computer, which do you use ? Or prefer ?

    I more or less never use paper. Used to keep notes in Word or a text editor, but now I just have a single continuous draft email open all the time. Most of the notes get binned anyway so it saves having lots of bitty documents, anything important will get transposed to somewhere else later. I...
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    Bank of Ireland Announce Interest Rate Increases

    Agree. These rates will make no difference to someone with a decent lump sum to invest. The lack of competition in the Irish market is frustrating, as has been the difficulty in opening foreign bank accounts in our supposed EU single market for services. That's all changing now, though, and the...
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    Update on Ulster Bank withdrawal

    I tried the paper form -- didn't work as apparently they "tried to contact me" because the account value was above 10k. Tried going to a branch, but couldn't even spot a single employee, presumably they were all off doing something for the grand total of two customers who were dawdling at...
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    How much are the monthly outgoings for a family?

    Isn't that calculator for assessing living expenses for insolvency cases? So it's going to be absolutely bare minimum (unless you're a professional who deserves more, though I think that idea got short shrift too).
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    closing UB personal accounts

    I posted the closure form on August 11th. After a month with no response from UB and no sign of the account closing, I went into a branch with a copy of my postal form. There were two customers standing at an unattended teller window and an unattended customer service desk. After ten minutes...
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    Broadband, what do I need to ask for and is it available anymore?

    Assuming you are just on bog standard DSL over copper phone line, any of the telcos do broadband+phone for 35/month with 12 month contract -- Eir and Vodafone as well as Sky and Pure. https://switcher.ie/broadband/
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    New Phone Help

    The last four phones I've bought for myself and others have been Moto G series from G7 to G10. Never had a complaint and they've been getting cheaper as time goes on. Could never understand anyone spending 1000+ on a phone. That's way more than I spend on my laptops (and I'm a software...
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    closing UB personal accounts

    Anyone closed a UB account recently using the postal form, and how long did it take? I mailed it off more than two weeks ago and no sign of closure yet.
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    Have you opened an online share trading account with a UK company?

    Order often are filled in many tranches of different sizes, but the whole things is a single order and you only get charged commission once. My glitchy ones ended being split into two separate orders, for reasons unknown.
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    Any way to check when fibre will be available in my area?

    Irrelevant to you now, but I found GoMo network performance was much better than 48. Ironically I switched from 48 to GoMo for bandwidth when the latter were offering 75 MB/month compared to 48's 3 MB (48 now has the higher allowance). However, the GoMo network (can't remember who they piggy...
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    Prsi voluntary contributions after early retirement

    If you have unearned income which you are charged PRSI on -- rental income, share dividends, deposit interest -- all those things are normally credited as Class K with no benefit entitlements. However, if unearned income is your only source of income, AND it amounts to >5k per year (which makes...
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    Have you opened an online share trading account with a UK company?

    Yes, have done some large trades with Saxo, up to £250k. Pluses for Saxo: reasonably decent online trading platform (costs extra for some premium features which I don't need); can deposit in euros, auto-converted to Sterling for Sterling trades; they seem to have gotten rid of their inactivity...
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    BOI negative interest rates to end?

    How soon are BOI likely to end negative interest rates on large deposits after yesterday's ECB rate rise? They've said they intend to, but when?
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    Is Eir service and landline automatically cancelled when switching to Virgin Media cable?

    Thanks for answers. On thinking about it further it sounds like I don't need to do anything. No. I upgraded the Virgin Media package. I filled in a number porting form. A couple of days later it was all done. The original landline had no dial tone. The original number was working on the VM...
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    Is Eir service and landline automatically cancelled when switching to Virgin Media cable?

    I've been helping an older neighbour move from Eircom landline to Virgin Media cable. She already had cable TV so it made sense to upgrade to TV, phone and broadband and cancel the very expensive package (phone only, no broadband) that Eir had her on. Got the VM package upgraded and ported her...
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    Tax on Dividends

    That refers to a company that you own and manage, that makes its money from rental income on property, and where you take out a loan in connection with that rental business. You can't just cherrypick the first sentence of 1(a) and 2 and apply it to the purchase of shares in any company. Did you...
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