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As everyone knows a visit to the doctor followed by a trip to the pharmacy is a very costly couple of hours! But did you know that there is a health expenses tax credit?

You can claim tax relief in respect of the cost of certain medical expenses paid by you. The tax relief up to 2008 was given at the marginal rate of tax of 41pc. However, from 2009 onwards, relief ...

There is no precise definition when it comes to financial or economic collapse. The term is often used to describe a variety of bad economic conditions such as severe and prolonged depression along with high bankruptcy and unemployment rates; a breakdown in normal commerce due to hyperinflation; or even a sharp increase in the death rate caused by a bad economy. Major historical economic collapses have had both political and financial causes such as trade deficits, wars, revolutions, famines, depletion ...

NOT SURE WHAT exactly happened today during the Budget 2013 announcement? Don’t have time to read everything?

The good folk over at Legal Panda have created this handy chart which outlines all the major measures revealed by Ministers Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin.

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Revenue Commissioners are now targeting pensioners for failing to declare untaxed income.

Revenue are having to find ways of boosting their tax take. By the sounds of it they are beginning to communicate more effectively with the Department of Social Protection and cross checks are proving revealing.

In this case, some pensioners are receiving both the ...

With thanks to the O2 Ideas Room for blog posts…

1. Focus completely on satisfying your customers. Develop a true customer focus. Understand that customers always go where they get good value, they go where they are treated well, and when the value isn’t obvious or when the level of service slips, the customer slips away. Identify your target customer; the more you know about your customers, the easier it is to serve them well.

2. Gather and analyse management information regularly. ...

Excel is part of Microsoft Office’s productivity suite, a line of software that also includes programs such as Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Microsoft released its most recent version of Office — and Excel — in 2010. The Excel program gives you access to spreadsheets and all the tools you need to make computations therein. Excel’s spreadsheets ...