JimmyVik wrote: » Close enough. At least a hell of a lot closer than anyone else will get it for.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » What extent do you think it goes on to? Here's a real life example from a neighbour - a weekend junket to a European city and pick up an F1 race day or two, all charged to the business because they had a meeting while over there too.
antimatterx wrote: » 50K as Software Engineer in Dublin with 3 years experience. Not great, but not the worst.
Augeo wrote: » I'd class USC & PRSI as taxes too TBH.
JimmyVik wrote: » If you earn €35k you pay €3700 in taxes. If you earn €45k you pay €7640 in taxes. So even though you are only earning €10k more you are paying over double the tax. You are getting to keep about half the extra you are earning over the person on €35k.
Augeo wrote: » If you're on €35k/annum you come out with €2419/month if you don't throw anything into a pension. Just shy of €6k in total deductions. You need to gross significantly more than that to take home a decent wedge once the 40% kicks in.
JimmyVik wrote: » Me too. Income tax is income tax now matter what you call it. That calculation is including those.
purplefields wrote: » Anyone can do this stuff. You don't have to be a director to claim 'expenses'. You just have to make sure it stands up to scrutiny with the Revenue Commissioners, and that's the catch.
ted1 wrote: » I’ve had meetings in places too , I’m a PAYE worker.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » The other catch is than asking your employer to set up an F1 junket weekend isn't generally successful.
purplefields wrote: » ...... In your example, it will be the employer getting audited by Revenue, not the employees that availed of the junket. ...
AndrewJRenko wrote: » Have you had many F1 junket weekends scheduled around your meetings?
purplefields wrote: » You seem to have it in your head that Directors are privy to all these tax breaks that are denied to the lowly PAYE worker. However, I have yet to see an example of such a tax break. In fact the opposite is true. Directors pay more tax because they do not get PAYE tax credits. In your example, it will be the employer getting audited by Revenue, not the employees that availed of the junket. However, no matter what I say, you just won't believe it.
ted1 wrote: » As it happens, yes I fitted in the Bahrain Race and the KL race. Both happened to be on while I was over for meetings. I travel a lot. So much do I qualify for FED most years...
AndrewJRenko wrote: » The directors ARE the employees that availed of the junket. They arranged it, they availed of it. They had a nice city break / event weekend and the company paid for it as a business expense. If they are audited, they show a meeting note.
MarinaM wrote: » I'm in a specialist area of IT in a Staff role, 70k (plus excellent flexibility, medical cover etc). I've been in the company over a decade and probably should be on a fair bit more - but years of child rearing just meant that work wasn't always my first priority. I thoroughly enjoy my job now as I moved into a new, up and coming area of IT/Design - no people management or major stress, and have a lot of autonomy in what I do. It's also very interesting to me and there is a lot of scope for growth as I get more experience. In the next couple of years, I'd love to be on 80-90k and have been looking around - but it'll tough to risk the excellent flexibility and wlb I get in my current company. Not sure it would be worth it. I also hate change It's hard not to feel demoted by some of the massive salaries here!
MarinaM wrote: » It's hard not to feel demoted by some of the massive salaries here!
krissovo wrote: » If you are in an area of design/architecture for containers/K8’s, Infrastructure as code,devop’s or multi cloud you are 20k under paid at a staff level
Deeper Blue wrote: » Most of them aren't real so I wouldn't worry
Geuze wrote: » I have not read the whole thread, but they all seem genuine to me. I know plenty of people, most of my friends, on 60-85k. They are aged 40-55. One friend is on 85k + wife 95k = 180k.
Deeper Blue wrote: » I'm sure some are genuine, but I'd wager that far more are pure fantasy.
Low Energy Eng wrote: » There may be a couple but the majority would be true.
Ruggabugga101 wrote: » You know the saying its on the Internet so must be true.... Boards must have a heavy squew towards IT workers then.
TheAnalyst_ wrote: » Data 220k
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