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Home Renovation Incentive where I buy some of the materials

  • 08-12-2016 6:55pm
    #1
    mrcheez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,231 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm getting work done on my house that will be eligible for HRI (about €8K in total), but some of the materials I have sourced myself, including €1,400 spent on tiles.

    Can I claim for materials I have bought privately that are used in the job, or only claim for materials purchased by the contractor?
    I have receipts.

    I have more tiles to buy so need to determine if I should get the contractor to purchase them so they are covered.


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  • #2
    mrcheez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,231 ✭✭✭✭mrcheez


    Ah I see a note in the "home-renovation-incentive-guide.pdf" mentions:

    "Materials you buy yourself such as paint, tiles and so on, will not be included when working out the qualifying expenditure."

    It's grand as I had to source the €1,400 tiles myself from Italy and saved about 50% of the price the builder would have charged getting them here, but I'll get him to sort out the tiles I need to buy from here for the next batch.


  • #3
    CIARAN_BOYLE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,599 ✭✭✭✭CIARAN_BOYLE


    mrcheez wrote: »
    Ah I see a note in the "home-renovation-incentive-guide.pdf" mentions:

    "Materials you buy yourself such as paint, tiles and so on, will not be included when working out the qualifying expenditure."

    It's grand as I had to source the €1,400 tiles myself from Italy and saved about 50% of the price the builder would have charged getting them here, but I'll get him to sort out the tiles I need to buy from here for the next batch.

    Interestingly if you told the contractor where you were buying the tiles from in Italy he would have gotten them even cheaper (he wouldn't have had to pay VAT you did)


  • #4
    mrcheez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,231 ✭✭✭✭mrcheez


    Ya probably though I didn't even know about the HRI until I happened upon it last month a long time after buying the tiles ;)

    EDIT: Actually sorry I see you mean just using the builder to buy regardless of HRI?

    I got the tiles before I'd settled on a builder, not to mention I got them at a negotiated discount which may not have lasted until I sorted a builder out, so I guess I may have gotten them for a similar price that the builder might have if he bought them at the normal price.

    Although I am still missing out on the HRI thing for these which is annoying. Win some lose some.


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