Money Guide Ireland

The latest figures on the Property Tax from Revenue is that 948,522 LPT returns had been received by May 20th. This is one week  before the deadline for online returns to be made.

The exact figure for the  total number of liable properties is not known. A figure of 1.9 million was mentioned by Minister Hogan – but  Revenue say they only  issued forms to 1.6 million properties. Several thousand people have not been sent forms or letters because they were sent emails instead – to register online. Revenue have admitted that thousands of home owners will not have received any form or email – because they just can’t match up some properties to potential owners.

If we go with the higher figure  of 1.9 million properties – then that means  just under 50% of all LPT1 returns had been filed by May 2oth.

Revenue say that any home owners will not have received a form or email -  are still expected to fill in an LPT1 form online .

The Property Tax legislation mentions  a financial penalty for not completing an LPT1 form.  It appears that this penalty will not be automatic – Revenue say they “will follow up with you if you do not submit your LPT Return form”
Revenue also say that… “Penalties will not be imposed automatically and will be preceded by engagement with the taxpayer. If you don’t send your completed return to Revenue, the penalty is the amount of tax due, subject to a maximum of €3,000″

So – if  your property tax is estimated at  €157 and you don’t return the form – you will then owe double that amount (ie. €314).

More about Property Tax Penalties

All about the Property Tax

 Marks and Spencer Ireland.   are offering 20% off  schoolwear  online this week . No code required. Plus – Free Delivery on orders over €35.

At the MarksandSpencer.ie  website you can’t buy  food  or  furniture – but there is a wide choice of clothing for all ages and  some great stuff for the home – towels, bed linen , luggage,cookware, and other homeware items.
Delivery anywhere  in Ireland is €4.95.

Check out more online discounts , offers and deals on our Bargain Alerts Page .

Credit cards with a billing address outside Ireland are not accepted – so that means people abroad can’t use the Irish M&S site to buy gifts for people in Ireland.
If you want to get items delivered to someone in the UK or overseas you can’t do it on the Irish M&S site – but international delivery is available on the M&S UK Site
Shoppers on the UK site still can’t get orders delivered to Ireland though.

Marks and Spencer Ireland

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Price Comparison of  home phone and   broadband bundles in Ireland.    Updated May 2013

Sky recently  joined the Irish home phone and broadband market and their offers are worth checking out . Vodafone have responded to the extra competition and have recently made 70Mb speeds available to many customers – and they now offer 300Gb of downloads too (but they call it unlimited) .

Sky Ireland   have a bundle costing €47.50 a month which includes unlimited data , speeds of up to 24Mb and free anytime calls to Irish landlines  (and 20 other countries see below  *) .  All bundles come with a  free wireless modem too . (This package will cost €57.50 in rural areas and smaller towns )

The cheapest unlimited broadband deal from Sky is priced at €40 – and includes free Off Peak calls to Irish landlines  . Their lowest priced bundle is just €30 and has a download limit of 2Gb and includes free off peak calls to landlines.  THis package will cost €40 in some areas of the country and there is a €40 activation fee .
You don’t need to have TV from Sky to sign up for their phone and broadband packages .
Note: Sky’s prices are  €10  more  in some of the more  rural areas of the country where the phone exchanges have not been “unbundled” (about one third of homes will be charged more)

See broadband availability and some more options at Sky Ireland

Vodafone  are now offering a broadband and phone bundle with speeds of up to 70Mb, 300Gb of data,  free anytime calls to landlines  and 100 mins of calls to mobiles for €47 a month . (They call it unlimited broadband  – but they have a 300GB a month fair usage cap.)

If you don’t really want the landline calls – just the broadband – Vodafone are offering stand-alone broadband down your phone line for just €30 a month with a 20GB limit. ( or €36 for 170Gb)
More details at Vodafone Ireland

Some other  broadband provider’s prices for similar packages:

UPC - which is only available in certain areas of the country -  offer speeds of up to 100Mb  for €52 a month with unlimited data usage and unlimited calls at anytime .

UTV charge €55 a month for upto 24Mb (unlimited) and anytime calls (Uk included)

Eircom charge  €65 a month  for an unlimited  70mb speed broadband with free anytime calls.(€60 for first 6 months)

All Prices shown are correct as at  May 21st 2013

Check out our page on Mobile Broadband in Ireland

* Sky Anytime package includes free anytime calls to landlines in these countries Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA (also includes calls to mobiles in Canada and USA)

We have updated out list of online shopping discount codes and special offers. Some of the current offers include 20% off at French Connection , 10% off at Viking Direct, 20% Off  at M&S and free delivery from Superquinn.  Check out these discounts and more on our Discount Alerts Page

More Online Shopping Sites for Ireland Here