Here is where the seven biggest parties stand on the issues of housing, tax, health, climate, law and order, and education

Revenue this morning published preliminary results for 2019 showing they collected total net receipts of €73.9 billion.

Farm businesses have been warned to expect fines of thousands of euro in 2020, if they are not compliant with the PAYE modernisation which was introduced 12 months ago, the biggest change in the Irish PAYE income tax system since the 1960s.

Karshan claimed they operated under contracts "for" services, were therefore self-employed, and responsible for their own tax deductions.

You could be entitled to a refund from the taxman, and getting it later this month, or early next year, would provide a welcome boost to household finances.

An Oireachtas committee has heard that bogus self-employment is rife across industries in Ireland, representing a “massive” problem.

The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has no legal basis for the imposition of self- employed status on many workers, its Oireachtas committee is expected to hear today.

Revenue is due to recoup €9.8m in outstanding tax from default cases arising in the three months to the end of June.

The number of people working from home appears to be on the rise in Ireland and this is good for the environment.

The Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners Niall Cody has warned that the Minister for Finance will have to be prudent and not rely on Corporation Tax to fund State expenditure.

The CEO of Irish Mortgage Holder's Association David Hall will be contesting claims made by Revenue in a High Court application seeking freezing orders against a Kerry animal welfare charity.

The Revenue Commissioners, in a bid to get payment of a revenue debt, have secured temporary High Court orders restraining one of Ireland's largest animal welfare charities reducing its assets below €191,000 or transferring its lands to another charity.

To put the much-hyped world class Childrens’ hospital overspend and wastage into perspective, all one has to do is a simple sum.

These are the critical days for individuals to file their tax returns to Revenue.

They pay more but self-employed must still comply, writes Brian Keegan

Employers face a considerable more work under measures in the Finance Bill detailing the new monthly information they will be obliged to provide to Revenue for access by staff online.

No rabbits will be pulled next week from the “budget hat” despite the latest exchequer figures suggesting corporation tax revenues were again picking up steam, analysts said.

The Government collected less than it anticipated in Vat and in corporate tax receipts last month but finance officials said revenues were still on course to meet the budget targets by the end of the year.

Setting off to college this coming September? Gráinne McGuinness has some sund financial advice for you.

The Department of Finance is investigating the reasons for an unexpected drop in revenues it collects from income tax revenues as it issued its exchequer returns for taxes and spending in March.

A host of measures to allow workers manage their tax bill, writes Brian Keegan.

The Revenue Commissioners never send emails or text messages requiring customers to send personal information via email, text or pop-up windows.

Women fared better in the recession than men when it came to employment.

I would like to stress that I really do care passionately for this country and for its politics. 

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said it will be hard to avoid higher income earners benefiting more from USC cuts than lower income earners.

The good news for self-employed business owners now that polling day has arrived is that all parties have committed to addressing the imbalance between PAYE and non-PAYE workers with Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, and Renua adopting the strongest stances.

The University of Limerick made a tax settlement in excess of €110,000 to Revenue last year over a mix-up in how it deducted tax from contractors.

Renua Ireland leader Lucinda Creighton’s 23% flat tax policies lay in tatters just hours after she launched her party’s manifesto.

Just when you might have thought you’d heard the last of the budget, the Finance Bill appears.

The Irish Exporters’ Association has called for restraint in public sector pay rises and accused the Government of lacking the courage to tackle the issue in the proper manner.

“Why aren’t they in jail?” The woman asking me the question had the newspaper at her elbow, which was over an article about Revenue collecting millions in unpaid taxes.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that the estimated tax paid by companies operating out of the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), in Dublin, totalled over €950 million in 2013.

The organiser of the Taste of Dublin food festival — which takes place this weekend at Iveagh Gardens — has been named on the Revenue Commissioners’ latest quarterly defaulters list, in respect of a tax settlement totalling €120,000.

The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has introduced a whistleblower policy to help prevent a repeat of financial irregularities which rocked the education body it succeeded.

A Co Cork educational centre for early school leavers made inappropriate payments to staff and students, an audit by the State’s spending watchdog found.

The financial problems for a Dublin city centre club and restaurant stemmed from its directors acquiring a company that had extensive debts, of which they were unaware, a judge stated yesterday.

A worker who was not properly paid over a period of three years was justified in quitting his job, a tribunal has decided, awarding him over €15,000.

A worker who was not properly paid over a period of three years was justified in quitting his job, a tribunal has decided, awarding him over €15,000.

I couldn’t help but be annoyed with the comments of Victoria White (Irish Examiner, November 6) regarding the Water charge protests.