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Top 5 Business Apps To Simplify Your Day

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.

Should overseas artists pay tax in Ireland?

Visiting artists earning income from performances in Ireland have a tax liability under Irish tax law which requires them to file a self-assessment return. However, because they are not tax resident in this country, there are practical difficulties in enforcing that liability. In other words they do not file returns and there is no pressure from the Revenue Commissioners to file these returns and pay this tax.

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BETTING TAX

Despite an explosion in gambling over the past couple of decades, the state is taking in less money now from betting taxes than it was in 1990, The Sunday Business Post reports, in an extensive article on the heated battle between the bookies and the racing industry, which claims the bookies should be putting more back into horse racing.

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MUSICIANS ROYALTIES

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.

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JOSEPH O’CONNOR’S MOVIE

Author Joseph O’Connor is probably as well known these days for his radio diary on RTE’s Drivetime programme  but the prolific scribbler is on the verge of a major movie deal, according to a report in The Sunday Times.

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ELECTRONIC MEDIA

It looks like inveterate tweeter Ryan Tubridy has had enough of Twitter – learning the hard way it can be better for self-confidence to insulate oneself from the hoi polloi.

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ENTER THE DEN

If anyone wants to apply for the new series of Dragons’ Den, they have until the end of November to do so. The Sunday Business Post profiles the new female face of the panel, publisher Norah Casey, who replaces Sarah Newman.

Online applications can be made at www.rte.ie/tv/dragonsden.

NEW IRISH MOVIES

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?

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