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RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭Karppi


    And don’t forget, apart from the lump sum allowances, the other allowances are not subject to tax or any or deductions. Nice little earner. Bit like a TD, in fact.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,557 ✭✭✭jmcc


    They'll try but nobody except Tubridy and a handful of his remaining fans will believe it. Things are going badly wrong for RTE and Bakhurst should be dealing with these problems instead of taking a holiday.

    Regards...jmcc



  • Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tubs can earn up to €50k per annum free of income tax from that dross.



  • Posts: 9,954 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Can someone explain how the RTE Car Allowance works?

    Am I right in thinking this is an option of a cash payment or car. If it is a Car up to 25k per year, how do they value it. e.g. Volvo XC90 is ~100k to buy, 5 years depreciation is 20k a year, leaving 5k unused.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,258 ✭✭✭Damien360


    Likely a cash value equal to the lease allowance if they were provided a company car. Your allowance would be different depending on your scale on the pleb/manager/board level. Lease of a Passat is currently about €700 a month for example over 4 years. So you pay that figure minus the taxman's slice to the employee and they provide their own car for work travel.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    The Licence fee figures are a disaster for RTE....

    If Bakhurst does not offload Tubridy it will get significantly worse.....

    There can be no way back for the DLB....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,687 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    €655k in car allowances, some perks given by RTE

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,503 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    You arent thinking like an RTE CFO here.

    Thats a lot cheaper than sending limos.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki




  • Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Indefinite as far as I'm aware, and the exemption applies to each book/work it is granted for. So if he got it for all 4 books you've posted he is eligible for up to €200k per year free of income tax (I'm sure the books don't generate that level of income for him..who in their right mind would buy them) but how Revenue deem them to be "original and creative, and recognised as having cultural or artistic merit" is beyond me.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,687 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    They should use

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    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    I thought that was amended for books? I may be wrong of course as tax avoidance isn’t something I’m a specialist in.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    What's this now, Dempsey said Tubs would be found out eventually? Any more info on his at all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,489 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    True, he should write a comedy for RTÉ about this, he could star.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,704 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    The people have spoken again with the latest license fee losses. Bakhurst will be under a lot of pressure when he comes back from holidays.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,879 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    I don't think it worked like that. Apparently, I'd have to look back on thread, it appears there were some on "car allowance" who didn't work directly for RTE nor even had a driving licence.

    It was used to bolster their income.

    For example, RT wouldn't be entitled to a company car as he is a sole trader.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,217 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly



    Just another little top up because we had to cut your wages but don't worry we've got you covered...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,562 ✭✭✭tobefrank321


    There's no doubt he's waiting for the figures, although how useful they will be to his decision is another question.

    Figures the same, or similar, no question Tubridy has to go as he's a huge liability and easily replaced.

    Figures down 50 or 100k, he surely can't think bringing back Tubridy in the teeth of massive opposition would rescue RTE, when they are on course to lose at least 3.5 million a month because of the Tubridy payments scandal.

    Surely he will put the good of RTE ahead of the good of Tubridy? It has to be curtains for Tubridy, regardless of what the JNLR figures say.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,557 ✭✭✭jmcc


    If the figures for the timeslot show no major variations, then it should prove even to RTE management that people listen to the radio at that time rather than listen to Tubridy and that Tubridy is not essential.

    Regards...jmcc

    Post edited by jmcc on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,760 ✭✭✭Pelvis Parsley


    Agreed-it would be an incidental yet very gratifying bonus if Oliver or Brendan actually grew the numbers over the quarter.

    They are certainly more capable and likeable than Mr. "Draw Me Like One of Your French Girls."



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  • Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭ Enrique Flaky Sonar


    I see the 6 o clock news bulletin has gone to 30 minutes along with yet another repeat of that bloody annoying Reeling in the Years. RTE must be the only TV broadcaster that I know that cuts the length of its main news programme because people apparently sod off on their summer holidays. If WW3 breaks out before September will they go back up to a one hour programme to cover it I wonder?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91,687 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Nationwide seems to be a best of, compilation also

    Full disclosure my mother has it on when I am there

    No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change this World



  • Posts: 24,207 ✭✭✭✭ Iker Wrong Trainer


    Nationwide is a great program, well before the annoying Ní Chhhhofaigh took it on, but I’ve been inspired to visit places & do things by it over the years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,690 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Nationwide has a viewership of about 45,000... could easily be scrapped, because it doesn't cover its costs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Morrissey is a long time personal friend of the owner and this was all a big mistake apparently - entirely credible. 🙄 I mean you can see how the car dealership would make a mistake like that; it's not like they had to prepare a press release and do a photocall and put both on their social media and it's all "a mistake". 🙄

    Nice (mis)use of GDPR to avoid answering any questions as well.

    Still lots of questions to be answered on Mr. Morrisey's vehicular use and who was funding both the car and the fuel/mileage allowances for same.

    Now we're asked to believe that Mr. Morrissey personally bought a brand new 161 BMW for his own use, and a year later just happened to indefinitely borrow a Renault that he then used for the next 5/6 years and despite all the mileage and travel he does never once submitted expenses to RTE. This is getting more and more ridiculous TBH.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    I'd assume there's likely some seasonal variation in the JNLRs as summer is "quieter" so this does need to be factored in too.

    For example purposes only, they can't say for this latest period Callan/Courtney are down 20,000 listeners from when Tubs was last on air when Tubs himself loses 20,000 every summer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,467 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    One of Bakhursts first comments he made was that he'd make a decision on Tubs' future by the end of July.

    We are now 10 days past this, and still nothing.

    So he is already making promises he can't keep when hes only in the door. Start as you mean to go on, eh!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    The killing of Osama Bin Laden remains my favourite RTE "we can't be arsed" moment. News of Bin Laden's death broke late on the Sunday night of a Bank Holiday weekend. BBC, Sky News, ITV, almost every staton on this side of the world and all US TV went into overdrive on it. I stayed up most of the night watching the coverage, and then watched almost nothing but it the next day.

    The first mention of it on RTE TV? Six One News the next day, pretty much 20 hours after it had been announced.No "newsflash", no break in programming to bring you an update, no change to the schedule.....embarrassing really tbh.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,082 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    1 thing to keep in mind is that - despite years of NK management and the PR agencies best efforts -Tubridy is NOT at all popular with the general public.

    I would estimate that 10-15% of the population are favourable toward him - made up of:

    1. gullible, impressionable ppl who have been taken in by his wholly false “D4 Willy Wonka” persona. Mainly women. Mainly over 30s.

    2. Ppl who are comfortably middle/upper class who live similar lives to RT, in blissful ignorance of how out of touch they are with Irish society.

    3. Mentally ill people

    At least 80 percent of the general population are - at best indifferent to RT and many, many, many are disgusted with him and cannot stand the false, disingenuous, patronising fake persona he pretends to be.

    The nepotism and elitism central to how RT ended up in RTE despite his lack of broadcasting skills is also a hugely negative factor for people.

    So many people saw through his act years ago.

    Post edited by Beechwoodspark on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,704 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Yep it's very poor leadership. Making his first commitments and the missing the dates. It sets the tone.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



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