Money Talks

From next year, it will be possible for a couple to take home almost €80,000 a year without paying any income tax.

Sounds great on paper, but what about in practice?

There are lucrative tax incentives on the table – and not just for couples – but the varying methodologies are likely to appeal to some more than others.

Chartered accountant and tax adviser Alan Purcell of CloudAccounts returns to the Money Talks studio this week to map it all out and to answer the question: Is it worth working less to ultimately earn more?

“It can be,” Purcell said. “It takes a bit of planning. It’ll take a bit of work. It wouldn’t be for absolutely everybody, but if you have the right infrastructure in place, it can pay to work less.

“You could also have some knock-on effects of maybe not even having to pay for childcare, which is actually a huge saving, as we all know, in this day and age.”

Host: Katie Byrne
Guest: Alan Purcell

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Simon Harris’s much-hyped investment scheme is official, though there’s still some way to go before you can avail of it. But we’re not going to wait until next summer to analyse and scrutinise it.


Cian Carolan, managing director at DNG Financial Services, returns to the Money Talks studio to tease out the forthcoming Personal Investment Account and discuss what you need to know ahead of time.


“There’s a couple of things that tell me that they overcomplicated it, overthought it and probably missed out on the simplicity of it,” says Carolan.


“The biggest missed opportunity of all is the July start date. We’ve been waiting around all year. We’ve had a lot of clients ourselves who’ve been deferring starting investing in anticipation of this.


“They’ve missed out on a really good year so far, at least in terms of investment returns. That’s something that needs to be called out."

The negatives and the positives – because there are some of those, too – go under the microscope on this week's episode.

Host: Katie Byrne

Guest: Cian Carolan


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The saying goes that time is money and money is time, but how does it all add up - and indeed, subtract - when we apply it to our own specific situation?
This week on Money Talks, Katie Byrne is joined by Dale Whelehan, a behavioural scientist and assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin.
His research explores why modern life makes many of us feel like we never have enough time, while his latest project, House of Time, helps perpetually busy people find practical solutions.
How does the ‘time is money’ mindset apply to our finances?
Do we need to cut an entire day from the working week?
And would a ‘time audit’ save us, not just hours, but money as well?
Host: Katie Byrne
Guest: Dale Whelehan
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Budget 2027 is in the books, so it's time to do some calculations.
How much better – or worse – off are we?
Has the government done enough to ease Ireland's cost-of-living crisis?
On this episode of Money Talks, host Katie Byrne is joined by Charlie Weston, Saoirse Hanley and Sinead Ryan of the Irish Independent's business team to tot up the winners and losers of this year's major financial shake-up.
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Women’s wealth expert Laura Tynan is on a lifelong mission.
Having studied finance at University College Cork, she became a chartered accountant and travelled the world, working in the higher end of the financial industry.
But she wasn’t satisfied. Having developed a spiritual and strategic relationship with money, Tynan turned her attention to gender pay disparity, declaring that she doesn’t want to live in a world in which women find themselves on the wrong side of money statistics.
In conversation on the Money Talks podcast, she raises a pertinent question: why should it be considered crude for a woman to want to make a lot of money?
“My mom stayed at home, my dad went out to work, so growing up I saw that dynamic,” she notes. “Nothing wrong with it, but it was just very evident that dad manages the money and mom stays home and takes care of the kids.
“Now, I always knew that I wanted to be rich. And that even sounds vulgar to say, as a woman. But it’s not, right? You have every right to declare you want to be rich. There's nothing dirty about that word.
“I saw my mom not having access to her own funds. I saw her talking to my dad and having to negotiate to even just get money to go to the grocery store. And I thought, ‘I don’t want that for me. I want to have my money. I want to be able to make my own decisions.”
On this week’s episode of Money Talks, Tynan explains how she took up that journey, how she’s going about her goal to make her daughter a millionaire one day, why she dropped her Witch of Wall Street persona, and the inner work people can adopt to move towards a positive money mindset.
Host: Katie Byrne
Guest: Laura Tynan
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