Renter's tax credit

That's for this year (you can now claim reliefs during the year); it is claimable for 2022 already

Badly designed and confusing (IMHO). I'm paying over €10,000 in rent PA, so I claimed the max allowed per year (€1,000) but a better design would be for a claimant to enter the rent they pay, and let the site figure out the max one can claim

The website states (elsewhere) the annual max claim is "€1,000 if you are a jointly assessed married person or civil partner. but the web form allows a max of €5,000

Yes, I am confused with that one also. What amount should we write for "gross relief due" to be able to get €500 and if we jointly assessed married, then can we get €1,000 for each tenants(applicant + spouse)?

I'd imagine this is the actual aim of the scheme. Throw a crumb to the masses and look like they've empathy for the housing crisis but in the same gesture uncover LL not registered with RTB or not declaring to revenue. Give a little to hopefully gain a lot, I'd imagine it will be the final straw for some LL though. Might be worth a call to your LL to ask the question they may well come to an agreement to do what I can't say as it would be considered tax fraud.

Nope. You are just unfamiliar with the fact you can claim some credits/reliefs in real time for an active tax year or 2023 and the fact that you can file a tax return via your Revenue MyAccount for prior tax years to claim additional tax credits/reliefs you didn't claim while those years were active tax years.

When you file a tax return and claim any additional credits/reliefs for a prior tax year which generate a refund, that refund issues from Revenue. When you claim a credit/relief for an active tax year, it gets added to your tax credit cert for the active tax year meaning you pay less tax through the year. So if you looking for relief for the 2022 tax year, it's a tax return you file and if you are looking for relief for the active tax year 2023, you claim a real time credit.

No it's 500 per spouse.

Thank you for all the useful information you provided. Is it fixed €500 per spouse? Because when we write the rent amount to the gross relief due for income tax return form, net amount is shown around 300-400 Euros.

What an unregistered landlord might do is make an offer to pay the tenant the amount of the tax relief if the tenant wants it.

Boards.ie is very pro landlord because of the demographics. But in this scenario f em! Stick in for your tax credit that you are owed and entitled too prtb number or not. Unless of course you are getting below market rent.

Can someone put up a link for how to claim the credit or point me to the area in My account on Ros.ie please?

Thanks.

Great, thank you, appreciated for sending this on, so the long and short if it is, if I pay over 2,500 euros a year in rent, I am entitled

to 500 Euros credit from Revenue? I dont get all the total calculations etc (Maybe that is for people on other assistance etc)

It would not be tax fraud to do what I suggest. How would it be? In this situation nobody is claiming any tax relief at all, let alone wrongly claiming a relief they aren't entitled to. The LL would basically compensate the tenant by the same amount as the tax relief in return for the tenant not bothering to claim the relief. It would make no difference to the tenant.

the only offence is that the LL still would not be RTB registered.

This is likely a stupid question, but where do you find the RTB number? I checked the register and the house I'm renting is there but there's no RTB number.