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Top 5 Business Apps To Simplify Your Day

Written by David on . 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.

Extension of Mandatory Online Filing

Written by David on . Posted in Tax Briefs.

From 1 June 2012 the following categories of tax payers are obliged to file their returns electronically:
• All VAT registered tax payers • Self assessed individuals claiming certain income tax exemptions (Artists Exemption, Woodlands Exemption etc) • Self assessed individuals claiming certain income retirement reliefs (RAC payments, Relief for PRSA contributions etc) • Self assessed individuals claiming certain income tax reliefs (BES relief, EII relief, Seed Capital relief , Film relief etc)
Where a taxpayer is obliged to file and pay on ROS, the penalty for failing to do so is €1,520 each time a taxpayer fails either to pay or file on-line. Where there is a genuine difficulty with filing and paying on-line, taxpayers may on application to Revenue be excluded from electronic filing.
TAX TIP: If you think you may be in a tax refund in respect of 2011, why not send in your return early and obtain your refund now!!!

ENERGY COSTS TO RISE FOR SME’s

Written by David on . Posted in News Round up.

As if things weren’t bad enough for SMEs. From this week, gas suppliers are deregulated and free to set their own rates for energy to businesses. In the short –term this is likely to lead to price increases for small and medium sized businesses says the Sunday Business Post. 

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PIRATES IN THE ARENA

Written by David on . Posted in Business Briefs.

Here’s a great article by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch quoting Yossi Vardi, Theodore Roosevelt & Chris Dixon on Start up entrepreneurs. If you are that start up founder, contact Noone Casey so we can walk with you.

Original article here

I’ve written many times before about the difference between a true startup founder and, well, everyone else. Israeli investor Yossi Vardi often quotes Theodore Roosevelt in a 1910 speech about “The Man In The Arena“:

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GIVE YOURSELF A TAX BREAK – TAX BREAKS FOR START UPS

Written by David on . Posted in Featured.

Awareness of tax breaks and incentives available for start-up businesses can be the making or breaking of any new enterprise, writes accountant Anthony Casey of Noone Casey, sponsor of this news-round up, in The Sunday Business Post. 

“It is good practice for start-ups to learn as much about the tax breaks and incentives they can avail of, as the tax charges they are liable to pay,” Casey advises.

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BOOTCAMP GYMS

Written by David on . Posted in News Round up.

The Smart Economy may be the holy grail of economic recovery but many people appear to be going back to basics to make a crust. Bootcamp gyms are one way of making a few bob and according to The Sunday Times derelict buildings replete with punch bags, skipping ropes and bar-bells are replacing chintzy gyms with state-of-the-art treadmills.

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IBEC’S TAX POLICIES

Written by David on . Posted in News Round up.

Homeowners should pay a flat-rate property tax of €500 from next year and pensioners ‘on reasonable incomes’ should be taxed, according to Danny McCoy, director of the employers’ lobby group, IBEC.

McCoy told The Sunday Business Post that a direct, transparent once-off property tax would be the best way to minimise damage to economic growth.

“The political spine has never been there to do this before but we are in a very different place now. Let’s face up to this now: the state needs cash,” he said.

McCoy said the current proposed tax of €100 a home, which would increase over time in line with a site evaluation system, would not generate enough revenue. And he also said it was time some pensioners were brought into the tax net.

“The elderly on a lower income should not have to take a hit, but it is ridiculous tat those on reasonable pensions should not have to contribute something – like every other group across society.”

However, he also described the proposal to reduce private pension relief from 41% to 20% over the next four years as “potentially reckless”.

INCENTIVES FOR START UPS

Written by David on . Posted in News Round up.

And finally, a bit of good news … well, for those with a bright idea for a technology start-up. The Sunday Times’ small business page reports on the range of incentives available for high-tech entrepreneurs who want to turn potential into reality.

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UNRAVELLING THE RED TAPE

Written by David on . Posted in News Round up.

A total of just two civil servants have been delegated to tackle the ribbons of red tape snarling small business despite the promise by the government to tackle the €600m scourge, according to a report in The Sunday Independent, which has been championing this issue.

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INCREASE GOVT. BACKING FOR START UPS

Written by David on . Posted in News Round up.

An extra €55 million is to be made available for start-up firms in an expansion of the Enterprise Ireland programme which supports high-potential new companies. Last year Enterprise Ireland supported 73 such firms but this is expected to rise to 85 next year and 100 by 2016.

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