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Top 5 Business Apps To Simplify Your Day

Written by David on January 17, 2018. Posted in Featured, News, Uncategorized.

Google Docs, Slack, Revamp, Flipboard, Tiny Scanner - Top 5 Business Appd — Top 5 Business Apps To Simplify Your Day

1 GOOGLE DOCS

Edit, export and view documents efficiently while you are on the go. Create new documents or edit existing files on an easy to use app that also allows you to collaborate with colleagues in the same document at the same time. You can even work offline if you need to.

2. SLACK

Create teams and message each other, assign tasks and create deadlines. Helpful for managing multiple projects with different groups of people.

3. REVAPP

Easy and secure access to Revenue’s services to help you manage your Irish tax affairs, on the go. This also gives you access to Receipts Tracker – the easy way to record and manage receipts for your expenses.

4. FLIPBOARD

This app brings together news, popular stories and conversations around any interest or passion. Download the app, select your interests and Flipboard will create a magazine just for you.

5. TINY SCANNER – PDF Scanner App

You will never have to worry about not being near a scanner again. Use this app to turn your smartphone into a scanner. This app also turns the scanned documents into PDF’s for safe distribution.

BUDGET 2012: ARTISTS’ EXEMPTION/SECTION 481

Written by David on December 5, 2011. Posted in News Round up.

Residency rules and qualifying criteria for artists’ tax exemption and Section 481 film projects will be tightened but the current reliefs are likely to remain unchanged after Budget 2012, according to The Sunday Business Post.

ARTIST ROYALTIES

Written by David on September 19, 2011. Posted in News Round up.

Veteran musical performers are in line for a windfall because of an EU extension on royalty payments by a further 20 years from 50 years currently to 70 years, The Sunday Times and The Sunday Business Post report.

Composers and lyricists currently retain copyright for their lifetimes plus 70 years after their death but performers never received the same rights. This means artists such as Dickie Rock, Brendan Bowyer and Red Hurley can all expect a revenue stream into the future.

MUSICIANS ROYALTIES

Written by David on April 4, 2011. Posted in News Round up.

Musicians are awaiting a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling this week on the payment of royalties to artists for music, or music videos, played in hotel rooms. The case challenges whether or not a section of Irish copyright legislation, the 2000 Copyright and Related Rights Act, goes against an EU directive on rental and lending copyright. Section 97 of the Irish act specifically exempts hotels from paying royalties to musicians for music played in hotel rooms by guests.

END OF THE TV LICENCE?

Written by David on March 18, 2011. Posted in News Round up.

Now there is no escape. Or so it would appear. The Programme for Government has proposed an end to the TV licence and its replacement with a public broadcasting charge which every household will have to pay “regardless of the device they use to access content”, The Sunday Times reports.

SECTION 481 RELIEF & THE GUARD

Written by David on January 31, 2011. Posted in News Round up.

A movie that benefited from Section 481 tax relief has secured a $1m distribution deal after it was shown at the Sundance Film Festival last week, The Sunday Business Post reports.

BUDGET 2011 & FILM FINANCE

Written by David on December 5, 2010. Posted in News Round up.

Taoiseach aspirant and minister for culture Mary Hanafin has lobbied her colleague Brian Lenihan to extend tax breaks for investment in film production in Tuesday’s Budget, The Sunday Business Post reports.

NATIONAL RECOVERY PLAN & THE ARTS

Written by David on November 25, 2010. Posted in News Round up.

Following the publication of the National Recovery Plan, Minister Mary Hanafin’s statement can be seen here. The salient facts as they relate to the arts sector, as set out by Theatre Forum Ireland, are as follows:

WHERE THERE’S MUCK…

Written by David on November 8, 2010. Posted in News Round up.

People all over Ireland are clearing out their attics in the hope of finding valuable items that they can turn into much-needed cash, The Sunday Business Post reports.

NEW IRISH MOVIES

Written by David on November 1, 2010. Posted in News Round up.

Is nothing beyond the reach of the Politically Correct brigade these days? Heck, you can’t even make a film featuring a few stereotypical paddies falling around the place after a few scoops too many. Or can you?

ONCE

Written by David on October 18, 2010. Posted in News Round up.

A movie that cost just €130,000 and 17 days to make will cost at least $6m to reprise as a Broadway musical next year according to its would-be producers, The Sunday Times reports.

THE SILENCE

Written by David on October 18, 2010. Posted in News Round up.

The winner of the gong in ‘The One That Got Away’ category belongs to the hit BBC TV drama series, The Silence, which featured among 37 feature films and 47 documentaries refused funding by the Irish Film Board over the past two years, The Sunday Times reports.

DISNEY IN DUBLIN

Written by David on October 18, 2010. Posted in News Round up.

The US entertainment giant is believed to be about to take over the former Laura Ashley shop on Dublin’s Grafton St, according to The Sunday Tribune, quoting “numerous sources”. The seven-figure lease has been signed following the collapse of a deal to lease the neighbouring Dunnes Stores premises.