Cost of accountant in Dublin to do a tax return.

Lesalare

Thanks for the replies folks. Much appreciated.

marizpan

Your 2017 accounts wouldn’t have been as straightforward as you think.

What was your resident status For 2017.
Domiciled and non-resident?
Was there split year relief? Other foreign income?

Lesalare

marizpan wrote: »

Your 2017 accounts wouldn’t have been as straightforward as you think.

What was your resident status For 2017.
Domiciled and non-resident?
Was there split year relief? Other foreign income?

Thanks for that Marzipan.
As mentioned I am not trying to not pay the guy, it's just everyone I know is telling me it's very expensive.

Re. your Q's:

I moved home from Aus with a plan to live here perm.
I have no clue about split year relief and had paid all my taxes in Aus before I left.

ismat

I would think this is a reasonable fee for the work completed. If anything a bit on the low side for a Dublin based accountant.

marizpan

What I’m saying is the fact that you were abroad for 14 years has a bearing on your taxes and therefore the complexity because of your residence status in 2017.
I would expect to pay more for that fact.

antix80

You're paying for his expertise! I'm sure you'd have done it yourself only for uncertainty involving residency, tax paid in the other country, etc.
Future years will likely be more straighforward so you can shop around and maybe get a better price from a smaller practice.

robo

Did you shop around before giving the work to the accountant?

Like someone else said, you are paying for years of expertise and knowledge of the Irish tax system - what may seem straight forward to you (non-accountant) may not be straight forward to someone who needs to analyse them and ensure that you pay or claim tax that you are due.

Whether he is in line with other accountants, as the consumer maybe you should have rang around to get a quote from a few different ones.

Treppen

ismat wrote: »

I would think this is a reasonable fee for the work completed. If anything a bit on the low side for a Dublin based accountant.

Taxassit in Dublin did mine. It included random receipts + health + other tax relief claims + dealing with paye component + some of my spouse's claims for about 400 all in! Also Included 2 meetings and no problems with clarifying stuff via email.

I reckon leaving your accounts to last minute might incur a 'desperation' surcharge.

Immy

Shop around and always ask for a price before.

For what you describe €600 would seem a little high

bunderoon

This is Ireland. Of course it's ****ing too high. What do you expect??

I'd be surprised there's a series in this country that is cheaper that the European average.