Dealing with Government departments can be pricy

billy the squid

Was watching sky news yesterday and was interested in the story about how the brittish government are giving the families of those in the Omagh bombing £800,000 to help pay for their civil action case against members of the Real IRA

It said in the report that it would cost the families $40,000 to get access to transcripts from relevent court cases which would aid their case.

That is a lot of money for a couple of hundred sheets of photocopy paper. Its not like they have to pay the civil servent any extra for doing it they are going to be there in their office anyway they might as well have something to do while they are there.

other examples of where the government is screwing us

College registration fees are nearly at the same level as the entire course was ten years ago. and that s just for registering. A course at Limerick institute of Technology last year had a registration fee of 670 euros.

National car test is 50 pluss euros where someone earning say ten to fifteen euros an hour looks up and down your car for 20 minutes and fails the car so you have to go back and hand out more money.

The freedom of information queries are going up in price

when 98FM and FM104 applied for their broadcast licence in 1989 they paid $500 pounds each. when the stations licences were re advertised last year it would have costed 26,000 euro to apply for their licence. this money was non-refundable

15c on the plastic bags when you go to the shops. try carrying a weeks shopping for a family in paper bags.

40 euros on credit card went to the government this year

12 . 70 went on to the government if you had an ordinary atm card.

The new tax system is screwing people because instead of being mesured annually it is now being mesured per pay period. This means that if you do overtime one week of every year you will pay 42 percent tax on that week making overtime less attractive. Before you could work overtime until you came near your cut off point and come out with a few extra quid and lay off the overtime untill the end of the tax year.

taxes on cigarettes. whether you are a smoker or not you have to agree that the high cost of cigarettes is adding to inflation even though the government do not want this included in the price index that they use to measure inflation. people want more money for their work because they have to spend more money paying the tax on cigarettes and alcohol.

TV licence hike The television licence has nearly doubled this year yet RTE are showing the same ****e repeats and still have advertisements. and they are able to undercut TV3 when they are offering advertising packages which is cost TV3 14 employees in the last few weeks.

everything you buy from the jelly baby to the plasma screen tv the government gets 21 percent of what you forked out for it. We have the highest level of VAT in Europe. Irish e-commerce is moving to places like the Azores where the level of vat is lower meaning that yhe companies make more profit at the expence of irish jobs.

Pay Related Social Insurance, what the hell is that every time you want to claim something off it i e dentist nwe pair of glasses they tell you you havent enough acumilated.

This is the end of my little rant. As forrest gump would say "and thats all I have to say about that"