Chartered tax adviser Kieran Coughlan, Belgooly, Co Cork.

The average dairy farmer can expect to pay as much as €600 extra per annum for contractors, within ten years, after the Budget brought a 1.6% carbon tax increase in agri-diesel charges, which is expected to be repeated every year for the next ten years.

A visiting Chinese delegation inspecting Irish meat-processing plants may witness a stand-off at one facility today after efforts to broker a temporary lifting of the picket were rejected.

There’s just a fortnight to the June 13 priority closing date for making renewal applications for Susi grants.

The Help-To-Buy scheme was introduced in 2016 as an aid to first-time property buyers of new properties and those who wish to build their own home, while also acting as a stimulus for new housing construction. It is due to finish on December 31, 2019.

The Finance Bill was published last week.

Carbery held open days for its suppliers and their families this week to mark 50 years since production commenced at the site in Ballineen, Co Cork.

Dairy farmers in Ireland may need multiple risk management tools to address income volatility, according to an evaluation published this week.

The tax implications of transferring a site are in many circumstances not given enough attention, more particularly the longer term implications are often underestimated.

The income tax return deadline is fast approaching, with less than eight weeks to the filing deadline of October 31, writes Kieran Coughlan.

With the advent of online shopping, many of us have at one time or another bought goods directly from the UK, from spare parts, to ink, to clothes and shoes.

IFA’s pre-budget submission to the Department of Finance focuses on supporting farmers through “unprecedented challenges”.

As the scorching weather continues, our cows are getting 6kg of ration, an allocation of grass, and 10kg of silage per day.

Today is the deadline for priority grant renewal applications in the SUSI third-level student grants support scheme, with a further four weeks available for first time applicants.

The main talking point in this year’s Teagasc National Farm Survey results is the stellar rise in dairy farm incomes for 2017, increasing 65% about 2016 levels.

Farmers can look back over the year, and hopefully can see how their business has improved, how they have added to their lot, and provided for themselves and their families, writes Kieran Coughlan.

Many farmers, rural dwellers and even some townies were caught outby ex-hurricane Ophelia, a few weeks back.

The income tax return

Teagasc have issued their “Situation and Outlook” paper capturing the state of the farming nation, and projecting what might be, for the year ahead.

While no radical overall of farming taxation is expected in Budget 2018, there are likely to be some tax changes which will ease the tax burden on farmers.

The Summer Economic Statement was published a couple of weeks back, setting out the broad financial framework within which the Government will work in the coming years, a so-called multi-annual framework.

Here in my Cork city hinterland, it’s beginning to feel like boom times again. There’s full blown construction at a number of local residential sites.

It’s surprising how many tax payers are unaware of the Home Renovation Incentive (HRI).

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has issued updated mileage rates effective from April 1, 2017.