solicitor's invoice: fee affixing P.D. stamp??

We are in the last stages of buying our house and have received an invoice from the solicitor. There is a 260 euro + VAT fee for "Affixing P.D. stamp". I've searched this website and the internet for what this is. Does anyone know before I talk to my solicitor? Also, doesn't 128.16+VAT sound crazy for "service charges: photocopying, postage,fax,stationary,telephone,etc"???

Thanks

Well PD stands for particulars delivered, more on the revenue site, I don't really know what it means.

The fact he's charging VAT on it could indicate that rather than being some sort of fixed price revenue charge it's part of his valuable services.

The 128 for photocopying etc. doesn't sound unusual, and if you brought it up to him chances are he'll be able to give you a full breakdown (I'd guess most of the charges would be in the photocopying).

Two possibilities on the PD issue:

1. It is a typo. Many solicitors use agents to attend personally at Revenue for stamping(quicker and safer than post), and these agents make a charge. But €26 plus V.A.T. would be more like it ( I think €14 plus V.A.T. is probably the norm)

2. Your solicitor is very old. When the "PD" stamp was introduced, it represented extra work. So solicitors made an extra charge for it. However, it has been with us for 20+ years now, and fee structures have fundamentally changed in the past 10 -15 years. I doubt if more than a handful of solicitors in the country would still regard it as a separate billable item.

Isn't another possibility that the solicitor in question is chancing his/her arm?

Clubman being his usual cynical self.

MOB you are correct, Puglover you would be right to question this charge in relation to particulars delivered.

Swoon0 said:

Clubman being his usual cynical self.

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Skeptical, not cynical. Anyway, surely my suggested reason for the charge is potentially as valid as the others suggested above? And if you think that I'm simply having an easy go at solicitors then you should read some of my other contributions where I have, in fact, defended them from kneejerk attacks.