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Rent Relief

  • 01-04-2009 12:53pm
    #1
    zedhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭


    This is a bit of a complicated one so bear with me.

    I moved in with a friend 3 years ago, her dad pays her rent so i pay my share of the rent into his account and he pays the full rent to the landlady. She was living there with her sister for 4 years previous to me moving in so he has been renting this property for 7 years.

    I have only just got around to looking into my rent relief, according to ROS online, for what i have paid i am owed 2000 euro which is not a small amount of money. I contacted my friends dad to get the details i need, since i am paying him the rent he would be officially my landlord. He claims he does not have a PPS number, he lives most of the time aborad but is an irish citizen and does have an address and bank account here, and he spends 2-3 out of each month here. Is it possible that he would not have a PPS number?

    He then told me that i should get in touch with the landlady he pays rent to, and when i called her she was not even aware that i was subletting the room and would not give me any information. She had not registered the rent as she did not have any of the details from my friends dad and would have to do that first. She did not sound happy to hear that i was subletting and just told me to get back in touch with my friends dad to sort it out!

    I dont know what to do next. I am entitled to that money back and it is by no means a small amount. We are due to move out of the apartment in June so i really need to claim this back before then.
    Does anyone know anyway for me to claim this money back.


Comments

  • #2
    Xiney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭Xiney


    you don't need your friends' dad's pps number to apply.

    HOWEVER, if he is indeed an overseas landlord, this complicates things since you may owe tax. People with overseas landlords are supposed to withhold 20% (I guess it might be 21% now) and pass it directly on to revenue.



    I suggest you get in touch with threshold.


  • #3
    Ticktactoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭Ticktactoe


    The max relief you can recieve for last year was 400 euro, 360 the year before and i think 360 the year before that - your figure of 2000 does not add up. Anyway you are claiming for more than one year so you are due a nice little sum back.

    The landlord in this case is the person who is renting the property - the landlady and it is her responibility to be declaring the income she receives to Revenue. Your friends dad isnot keeping the the money you give him for rent but passing it on to the landlady therefore he is not your landlord and does not declare any income to Revenue. This means that your concern is with the landlady who blew you off - for obvious reasons... she is not declaring the income!

    Her not declaring it is not really your concern. You can go ahead and claim your relief by filling out a Rent 1 form and submitting it into your local tax office. You can claim for the last four years. If the landlady does not want to supply her PPSN, then she is entitled not to. In that case you just need to supply her full name and the address at which she resides.

    Revenue will process your claim and will follow up on the landlady.
    So get claiming! :)


  • #4
    zedhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭zedhead


    Thanks very much! Just want to check, even if i am not paying the rent directly to her will that matter? If the revenue check up on it there is only record of me putting money into my friends account?


    Ticktactoe wrote: »
    The max relief you can recieve for last year was 400 euro, 360 the year before and i think 360 the year before that - your figure of 2000 does not add up. Anyway you are claiming for more than one year so you are due a nice little sum back.

    I just put my details (how much a pay annually and when i moved in) into Revenue online and it calculated it for me, so if it is wrong how do i get it to calculate the right amount for me to claim that?


  • #5
    Ticktactoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 765 ✭✭✭Ticktactoe


    zedhead wrote: »
    Thanks very much! Just want to check, even if i am not paying the rent directly to her will that matter? If the revenue check up on it there is only record of me putting money into my friends account?





    I just put my details (how much a pay annually and when i moved in) into Revenue online and it calculated it for me, so if it is wrong how do i get it to calculate the right amount for me to claim that?

    Ah right, well basically you can only claim up to 2000 a year on rent paid. However this does not mean that u will get the 2000. It means that u will get tax relief on this amount at 20 percent which is 400. That is the amount u will get back. This is on a per year basis. In 2007 the max amount of rent paid that u could claim was 1800 and relief on that was 360. Revenue online ask u to put in the amount of rent u paid but when u hit calculate it is capped at 2000. In relation to u payin the money over to ur friend, it doesnt matter as your friend was not ur landlord. The woman who blew u off was so put down her details.


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