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IF YOU ARE looking to buy a house over the next year, you’ll be happy to hear about a new initiative Finance Minister Michael Noonan announced today.
As part of Budget 2015, he said first-time buyers will receive a refund of DIRT (Deposit Interest Retention Tax) on their savings, worth up to 20% of the purchase price. DIRT, at the rate of 41%, is currently deducted at source by banks from interest paid on savings.
This change essentially means that buyers will get back the the interest on the money they saved for the deposit for their new home. Noonan said he expects the banks to offer specific products for this section of the market.
The refund will apply from tonight and will run until the end of 2017.
In his Budget 2015 speech, the minister said the property market is “not currently meeting the needs of our citizens” and this is just one of the initiative being introduced to address this.
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I’m off to cut a Mars Bar into 4… Feck the begrudgers
@⚡ Seánie ⚡: it’s even more fun when you glue four Kitkat Chunkies together and see the reaction from others.
@Harry Whitehead: brilliant :)
@Harry Whitehead: All Kit Kat lovers will never forgive you for that scurrilous comment. Sacrilege of the highest order. Will not sit at table in canteen at work with the unbelievers who produce supermarket home brands of Kit Kat. Peasants who do not know the true meaning of four fingers.
Did they give two fingers to KitKat
Ah here…… take a break lads
Just as well they stamp their name on each bar or I wouldn’t have a clue what I was eating……..
Can i have a Kit Kat chunky?
Sorry, we only have the ordinary ones…
That`s what i meant, you fa..
@Pixie McMullen: 10/10
My whole life has been a lie
I’m never satisfied by one kit-kat, I need about 3 of them they’re all finger and no chocolate if you ask me
Tough Break..
Two fingers to them so
The fact that they even asked has put me off kitkats
Mind you, people were familiar with the real Toblerone shape before the other company took chunks out of it at their discretion. I didn’t hear that company arguing that people had come to expect the usual trademark shape. With all the usual triangles.
Two fingers to them so!!
FFS REALLY!!!!
Have a break have a quick crap…
Have a break have a tandem!
Two fingers by two to Nestle! Nice to be mid silly season !!
Its the twox2 fingers for Nestle so.
Leo bars are much more wide spread in Belgium I’d say the average Belgian would think ok Leo if you showed them the Kitkat shape can’t nestle just be happy with their regional trademarks can’t have an Eu one if it’s not popular or even we’ll known in EU.
I guess the court gave them the..eh…two fingers!!
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