Tax and Over Payment

dulux

I have heard a rumour that there is a website floating around that can give you how much you have overpaid after entering your details. This can not be found on revenue.ie and no link to it either. Typical.

Can anybody help me out with a link?

Aparently it was mentioned on the radio during the week and the office is a buzz with people searching the web for it...

iMax

http://www.taxrefund.ie

But it's a commercial site, you have to pay them irrespective of you overpaying or not.

CiaranC

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I didnt think that was a commercial site, the radio ad gave me the impression it was run by the revenue commissioners...

dudara

Just call in to your tax office with your P60 or P45 and they'll sort you out in a few minutes. I went in at the start of January and had a refund of E200 in the post about 2 weeks later.

This can hardly be constituted a rip-off. I loved the way that Fine Gael pounced on this as an example of "Rip-Off Ireland". If they were in government, as they so desperately want, it would still be the same, because that's the way the tax system works. The onus is on you to make sure that you pay the correct tax.

dulux

Thanks for the link

Yeah I know I can ring the tax office but why doesnt Revenue.ie have this facility?

iMax

dulux wrote:

why doesnt Revenue.ie have this facility?

They want to keep your money :eek:

dudara

at the moment the Revenue only offer online services to businesses from what I can see. Hopefully, they'll extend it to personal (individual) taxation!

parsi

dulux wrote:

Thanks for the link

Yeah I know I can ring the tax office but why doesnt Revenue.ie have this facility?

Well you have always been able to request a balancing statement over the phone or whatever. I imagine they don't do it online as they don't have a method of verifying your identity - at the moment your identifier is your PPS number which isn't exactly secret.

Don't forget to claim your medical expenses, service charges and union subs. The forms are on the revenue site for Medical (Med1) which I imagine will make up the bulk of that tax sites business..

rondjon

Go to revenue.ie, download form p21, request for balancing statement, and send it in to them.

This tells you what you should have paid, how much you did pay, and then refunds any overpayment.

In fairness to Fine Gael, their issue was not the people overpaid tax, it was that people who submitted P21 forms were not being paid their repayments in a timely manner.

the tax refund website mentioned above is an accountancy firm in Louth or somewhere, and they'll charge you 10%.

Why bother when you can do this for the price of a stamp???

Me thinks that taxrefund.ie is more of a case of "ripoff Ireland" than anything else.

Cork

rondjon wrote:

In fairness to Fine Gael, their issue was not the people overpaid tax, it was that people who submitted P21 forms were not being paid their repayments in a timely manner.
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I don't think that this was the case.

Fine Gael has accused the Minister for Finance and the Revenue Commissioners of being "complicit in a rip-off" of taxpayers.

The party claims that €1.5 billion could have been overpaid by taxpayers in the last four years, but that very little is done to advise them of their entitlements to claim the money back.

Launching a national campaign to advise PAYE taxpayers of the issue, Finance spokesman Richard Bruton said the Revenue should be "far more pro-active" in returning the money.
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It is up to people to claim allowances and reliefs.

The FG made zero sense. complicit in a rip-off? Nonsense.