Tax Rebates Ireland

Gringo180

Hi all is there anyone kind enough that could help me. I got my p21 in the post and am due tax back but I just realised in my revenue account I have somebody else as my tax agent and my money has now gone into there account. A quick google tells me its tax rebates Ireland. I am just wondering whats my next step now ie do tax rebates Ireland refund me automatically or do I have to go chasing them?

relax carry on

Gringo180 wrote: »

Hi all is there anyone kind enough that could help me. I got my p21 in the post and am due tax back but I just realised in my revenue account I have somebody else as my tax agent and my money has now gone into there account. A quick google tells me its tax rebates Ireland. I am just wondering whats my next step now ie do tax rebates Ireland refund me automatically or do I have to go chasing them?

Contact your agent as the only way they are on record is you appointed them to act on your behalf at some point.

Gringo180

relax carry on wrote: »

Contact your agent as the only way they are on record is you appointed them to act on your behalf at some point.

Thanks for the reply. Would they not know automatically as the money has gone into there account? Seems a bit dodgy to me?

relax carry on

Gringo180 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply. Would they not know automatically as the money has gone into there account? Seems a bit dodgy to me?

If it's only just happened then they probably haven't noticed it. I'm assuming they are a large company with multiple transfers daily. Just contact them and query the payment if they are no longer acting on your behalf. Also if they are no longer acting on your behalf, contact revenue to have them removed as your agent.

Gringo180

relax carry on wrote: »

If it's only just happened then they probably haven't noticed it. I'm assuming they are a large company with multiple transfers daily. Just contact them and query the payment if they are no longer acting on your behalf. Also if they are no longer acting on your behalf, contact revenue to have them removed as your agent.

Thanks again for your help I will contact them Monday morning. It just seems under handed that in there small print when you sign up for a rebate with Irish Tax Rebates you give them authorisation to look after all future tax returns and they even put there bank account details onto your revenue account which unfortunately I didnt cop onto until it was too late.

wiggle16

This happens all the time. Always read the small print! It's not really underhanded, it's just their business model. They prey on the fact that most people don't understand the tax system.

Once you sign up with an agent such as TBI or TaxBack, they submit your details plus permission to do your taxes for you to Revenue, and they are put on your record, and so are their bank details, which is just good business sense cos it ensures they get their cut of YOUR REFUND. The trouble is that they will remain or your record forever until you tell Revenue to get rid of them.

So if you signed up to a taxback type company in 2006, and never did a P21 until 2017, the agent will still get a cut of your refund even though they didn't do anything, because they are still on your record.

Write to Revenue and ask for the agent to be removed, and then contact the agent - tbh you will probably be waiting a long time to get "their" cut of your refund back, if ever. I wouldn't be confident they will give it back to you at all, but try all the same.

Mrs OBumble

Gringo180 wrote: »

Thanks again for your help I will contact them Monday morning. It just seems under handed that in there small print when you sign up for a rebate with Irish Tax Rebates you give them authorisation to look after all future tax returns and they even put there bank account details onto your revenue account which unfortunately I didnt cop onto until it was too late.

Its not underhanded. You signed up for their service. You didnt tell them or revenue thay you didn't want them any more, so you stayed signed up with them even though you chosenot to use them.

Tell them and it will be sorted.

Gringo180

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Its not underhanded. You signed up for their service. You didnt tell them or revenue thay you didn't want them any more, so you stayed signed up with them even though you chosenot to use them.

Tell them and it will be sorted.

So if I dont notify them they would just keep my tax money? Should they as my agent not be in contact with me instead of the other way around?

wiggle16

Gringo180 wrote: »

So if I dont notify them they would just keep my tax money? Should they as my agent not be in contact with me instead of the other way around?

Why would they contact you? Their entire business model is based upon people being too lazy to find out how the tax system works, and it's pure profit, since all they do to make their money is log into your MyAccount and request a P21 and charge you for the pleasure. They don't care if you did the actual work for them or not.

As your agent, they should be in contact with you and working for you, not the other way around... but that's how a real accountant or tax agent would operate. It is not how these companies operate.

Mrs OBumble

You signed up for a cheap tax agent. You got cheap service.

Gringo180

Thanks for the replys ill be onto them Monday morning and removing them as my agent.