Revenue now considers locums as employees

[Twinkle]

Fully understand...just dump your rubbish into the septic tank!

Fleeg.

BIG bonfires !!!

(nah - we recycle, compost, give waste food to the hens and burn most of the rest on the solid-fuel boiler)

[johnep]

One of the reps I was friendly with had badly scarred arms. Told me had a property near Limerick and used to burn waste. One day, the waste would not burn, so he threw some petrol on to it. Was very badly burnt.

johnep

[Twinkle]

One of the reps I was friendly with had badly scarred arms. Told me had a property near Limerick and used to burn waste. One day, the waste would not burn, so he threw some petrol on to it. Was very badly burnt.

johnep

the numpty....!!

Looks like my registration's hit a delay now as my returned RPSGB certificate has been lost in the post - neither Royal Mail nor An Post can be bothered to look for it. Yay.
RPSGB's solution - fork out more money for a duplicate which they'll then cancel straight away and send me.
Got the letter of Good Standing from them after 5 weeks waiting too - THAT was £70 well spent !!! 1 sheet of A4 !!!

[/rant]
sorry

[Fleegle]

Yeah...been there and done it, albeit a good few years ago. This is the 'governing body' who you pay a considerable sum of money to each year to deal promptly on your behalf with situations like this which occur from time to time. Lo and behold..they can't do what you expect them to do with any reasonable promptness, and have the added audacity to charge an arm and a leg for their gross incompetence and wasting of your valuable time.

So nothing has changed..such behaviour by them in cases like this has become textbook!

You're better off out of it.

Fleeg.

[Twinkle]

oh HOW helpful are Revenue Ireland on all this ???

NOT !!!!

Clare office don't seem to have a clue about this, well not the departments I've spoken to, plus to mess it all up, my entry on the Tax Return under "occupation" would be "School cleaner/caretaker/gardener and occasional pharmacy locum (when I'm lucky)"
Apart from not fitting in the box (let's face it - I never was one for fitting into boxes)

(luckily I have found a lovely lovely accountant who talks in normal language)

There's nothing on the Revenue's website that I can find about this either.... can anyone point me to any announcements as to when this was introduced (no more pics of Ms Harney thanks Fleeg)

[hibernia]

As an employer I got a letter from the revenue looking for details of all the locums I employed in the last year and looking for a promise that I would treat them as employees, applying emergency tax in the future. I have a part-time pharmacist on the books who also covers my holidays and it didn't apply to me so I didn't keep the letter.

Whoever you are working for can get all the details about this from the Irish Pharmacy Union who are blue in the face trying to agree a workable compromise with the revenue but no luck so far, surprise, surprise.

[lamzee]

It is so ridiculous that I had to turn down work recently, as i would only have had about 50 euro left after emergency tax and fuel.

[Fleegle]

I've attached the most recent communication I have from the IPU lawyers to Revenue regarding this ridiculous situation. What do you all think..is it enough to swing it?

Fleeg.

[hibernia]

That makes complete sense to me (a first for a legal document) but there doesn't seem to be any moves on the issue.

Maybe if the "employee" locums started signing on for unemployment benefit every day they don't have work social welfare might get interested and try to push them back to being self-employed.

Heard a bit on the radio today about tax takes falling because the black economy is on the rise again. Not hard to understand why when it is next to impossible to work within the rules.

[Sofia]

Please: Who was the lovely lady in the picture at the start of the thread?