RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

" I havent contacted him since Tuesday"

Was he thinking?

And I won't be taking him back if I can help it!!!

I would expect them to try and sue too as they have no cop on and can't read the room of the general public.

All just a coincidence, Noel Kelly would never ever ask if any of his clients would even be considered to make an appearance on his good friend Ryans television programme.

Release the lawyers...

If a plumber or a mechanic does a job for me, they charge me VAT, which they then pay to the government. They also pay income tax on their earnings after that.

VAT and income tax are two different taxes.

Fact is Tubridy, like Marty Morrissey, provided an MC service. He's not employed by Renault so there was a service there.

I'm open to being corrected on all of this!

Bakhurst also said that RTE wanted the 150K back. Contract negotiations were paused for all contractors after the scandal broke. It is going to be a difficult decision for RTE (if it hasn't already been taken). Advertising is going to be a factor. If the advertisers don't want their brands to be associated with Tubridy then that might influence RTE's decision. Watch for the Ryan Tubridy Show social media accounts being changed as a possible early indication.

Regards...jmcc

Tubridy seems a bit touched. His speak about his soul and how he cares about all Children in Ireland, weird. I honestly think he sees himself as bigger than Santa Claus.

Weird vibe.

Withholding tax, VAT and income tax are all different. Withholding tax typically applies to individuals invoicing public bodies. It's a strange idea and I think was only brought as some were getting paid by public bodies but then hiding part of all of this income from Revenue. So the public body deducts withholding tax when paying the invoice and then this tax credit is claimed back annually. If such a trader is fully tax compliant anyway, it makes no difference. VAT is a different matter - post Brexit NK's company should have been charging VAT at 23% on the invoices to the barter company and then handing this to Revenue.

The BBC's offer letter got lost in the deluge of letters from well wishers no doubt.

The O'Keefe package could be the next big story from this whole scandal. There is a big stink emerging from it and nobody seems to have any details.

I can see why Siun fired Forbes 2 weeks ago but Forbes need to start talking. This scandal will run and run for months.

This mornings hearing in the PAC was far more impactful long term I would suggest than the RT/NK circus a couple of days ago. Apart from belatedly handing over a paper trail, all they basically said respectively & repeatedly was 'I'm a great guy, everyone loves me, I'm not very smart and the man beside me has the smarts' and 'I was told to do this by RTE'.

This morning you could see and hear the frustration in the committee about not getting the full story from RTE. That NK had provided a paper trail, that RTE disputed some of this but could not back themselves up with evidence or the appropriate witnesses.

He announced his departure from TLLS in March. Goes to show how utterly inept RTÉ are that they didn’t have a new contract for radio only ready to go on June 1st.

Near the end of June when the **** hit the fan they were still negotiating it. He shouldn’t have been allowed on the radio without a proper contract.