A publicity drive aimed at making more people aware of free legal and financial advice available to those in mortgage distress has commenced. It comes after research revealed that two-thirds of those who could benefit most from such a scheme did not know it existed. The Abhaile scheme was launched last July as a one-stop…
EX-STAFF of a prominent Mooloolaba restaurant will only receive about 13 cents for every dollar of superannuation they’re owed by former boss Todd Young. Mr Young hit Las Vegas with his partner just days after winding up Todd Young Investments Pty Ltd on December 29, 2015. His company operated Bella Venezia restaurant at Mooloolaba through…
A High Court judge has approved a personal insolvency arrangement for Donegal county councillor John ODonnell, who has debts of more than 4.2 million. A meeting of Mr ODonnells creditors had last month had rejected the proposed arrangement. Mr ODonnell, an Independent Councillor, previously featured in an RTÉ Investigates programme on standards in public office.…
Galway Bay fm newsroom 76 people were declared bankrupt across Galway over the past two years. New statistics from the Insolvency Service of Ireland show that from 2014 to 2016, there were a total of 171 debt solutions issues across the city and county. 95 of these were approved by creditors or the courts, and…
Banks only recover 34% of the mortgage debt they are owed if the borrowers go bankrupt, new analysis has shown. Customers go into bankruptcy if banks reject insolvency proposals put forward by personal insolvency practitioners. The analysis has been compiled by a firm called Insolvency Resolution Service, which today published a study based on the…
Every year, HMRC publishes an annual report on the estimated UK tax gap the shortfall between the tax estimated due from that which is eventually collected. For the tax year ending April 2015, the latest figures available and published towards the end of 2016, some £36bn of estimated tax revenue remained uncollected. Standing at six…
EX-STAFF of a prominent Mooloolaba restaurant will only receive about 13 cents for every dollar of superannuation they’re owed by former boss Todd Young. Mr Young hit Las Vegas with his partner just days after winding up Todd Young Investments Pty Ltd on December 29, 2015. His company operated Bella Venezia restaurant at Mooloolaba through…
Galway Bay fm newsroom 76 people were declared bankrupt across Galway over the past two years. New statistics from the Insolvency Service of Ireland show that from 2014 to 2016, there were a total of 171 debt solutions issues across the city and county. 95 of these were approved by creditors or the courts, and…
Gavin Daly Filan ran for Renua in 2015JAMES CONNOLLY Finbarr Filan, a brother of former Westlife singer Shane Filan, and a candidate for Renua Ireland in the last general election, is seeking an insolvency deal to restructure his personal debts. Filan, who owned a Sligo-based building company with his brother, has been issued with a…
ONE-hundred-and-thirty-eight people in the Sunshine Coast and Noosa region have filed for bankruptcy or started personal insolvency activity in the December quarter of 2016. Of those 138, 66 filed for bankruptcy and 59 started a debt agreement and personal insolvency with debtors. A further 13 in the Sunshine Coast hinterland were counted in the total…