Category Archives: Accountancy

posts related to accountancy, taxation and Revenue rules. Advisors.ie is an accountancy practice in Dublin 2 we deal primarily with SME’s and sole traders, we also have a financial advice service and a brokerage attached.

Hammer time! How to buy at an auction

Property auctions are growing in popularity in Ireland, driven primarily by companies like Allsop’s who have revolutionised the Irish auction market. We always had auctions but there were never guaranteed clearing prices and there was still issues like high asking prices which if not met meant the property didn’t sell. The whole area of private […]

Public versus Private Pensions – everybody gets to lose…

Sometimes we hear how people in the public sector make more than the private sector, or that big private sector earners don’t pay enough tax. This is a simple divide and conquer strategy where the end game is to make us all less well off in order for the Government to hold on to more […]

bOOm BusT! Why do we keep making the same mistakes?

Almost everybody knows a person who is in a less than ideal relationship and who says to themselves ‘why do they stay with that person?’. There is no simple answer, but then again, how can we be dumbfounded in particular when we suffer the same delusion in general? You see, the same problems haunt us […]

Credit Unions, the good and bad all at once

This week I’ll be doing some work with the Irish League of Credit Unions, a group who I’m sure I frustrate a lot as I have been vocal in saying it was bad financial planning when people paying unsecured debts (like CU loans) while not paying their mortgages. On the other hand – and the […]

Why do we keep making the same mistakes? From one bubble to another…

Almost everybody knows a person who is in a less than ideal relationship and who says to themselves ‘why do they stay with that person?’. There is no simple answer, but then again, how can we be dumbfounded in particular when we suffer the same delusion in general? You see, the same problems haunt us […]

TV3 Karl Deeter talking about Car Finance, Energy and Property Tax

The Half Rule on motor finance

RTE News – Insolvency Service receiving 100 calls a day

RTE News – Insolvency Service receiving 100 calls a day

The Insider on TV3’s ‘Morning Show’, on Debt Settlement Arrangements

This week we looked at using debt settlement arrangements to solve over indebtedness with mortgages instead of personal insolvency and how best to do it.

The mortgage crisis

We were asked to contribute as part of an independent panel at the Fianna Fail ard fheis, we were one of three independent experts offering opinion on the topic.