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Unemployed or Self-Employed ?

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  • 01-01-2013 4:51pm
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    Trapapony
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭


    Hello
    I am a 52 year old, single man living in my own house and have been unemployed since 2006. I am available for, and actively seeking, work, and registered as such with the Department of Social Protection. I receive no job-seeker's allowance from the department, being disqualified due to the extent of my savings (a six figure sum). I am living off the capital of those savings, the interest they generate and the very occasional capital gain I make. Most of my money (93%) is in bank deposits with the rest being in shares (4%) and investment funds (3%).

    Despite the fact that I do no work, have no business, provide no goods or services, receive no wage, etc, the Revenue Commissioners class me as "self-employed" and tax me as such. This implies that I and every unemployed person forced to live off our nest-eggs is self-employed, which seems ridiculous. Do I have grounds to appeal their classification of me?

    Thanks for any help

    Trapapony
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