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Title on Renunciations and Other Forms

Just a quick note to say that if you are submitting renunciations or powers of attorney with your oaths, its ...
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Principal Private Residence Relief and Nursing Home Residence

PPR Relief As most practitioners are aware principal private residence relief is a CGT relief that allieves a taxpayer from ...
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Clawback of Agricultural Reliefs

Farm consolidation relief is a stamp duty relief. It applies where a farmer meets certain qualifying criteria and in particular ...
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Names of the Deceased

It is often the case that the name on a death certificate will differ from the name on a will. ...
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New Charitable Bequest Form Procedure

Just when everything was going electric, now we are back to paper. So it seems with the Charities Regulator and ...
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Social Welfare Clearance in Estates

An important part of the clearance steps in an estate is ensuring that one obtains on file a letter from ...
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Income Tax Clearance – Update

We would have previously blogged on this site about the income tax clearance procedure and the steps to take to ...
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Power of Attorney Grants – Tips and Thoughts

All probate solicitors would be aware of Order 79 Rule 23 of the Rules of the Superior Courts. In case ...
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Abatement Rules for Solvent Estates

One often comes across situations where where the residue is not sufficient to pay all of the estate expenses but ...
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Maps attached to Wills and the Surviving Spouse

Practitioners may be aware that where there is a map attached to a will, there is a particular procedure to ...
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Points on Dwellinghouse Relief

With rising income and wealth in Ireland and the fact that families tend to be smaller than historically, the parent-to-child ...
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Deducting Title and Pre-59 Deaths

Many practitioners find administering pre 59 deaths a challenge and rightly so, because locating the rules can be cumbersome , ...
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