Madam, - I am a weekly paid employee, which means I receive a payslip of what I earned in the week. I noticed that on my payslip for the week ending May 1st I was charged the new tax levy and PRSI rates for the full week.
I was under the impression that the new rates apply only from the May 1st forward. I rang the Revenue hotline and was told that "this is just the way it is". After further inquires I was told that the system just cannot handle two different sets of data and I am in the same boat as everybody else.
As you can imagine this is not a satisfactory answer as this means that I, and all weekly paid employees with me, paid four days more on the new rates than a monthly-paid employee who receives payment for a full month starting on the first of each month.
I wouldn't normally complain and even wouldn't have said anything as I know that each cent will help to bring the economy back on track, but being told that there is nothing I can do about it is like a red flag for me.
I am not willing to just give in, the Government in this case can not just play on the fact that the people wouldn't do anything about it.
What did the East German people say when they had enough of their government? "We are the people"! - Yours, etc,
A chara, - I am a highly paid public servant who was entitled to retire on full pension three years ago under the superannuation scheme which applies to my particular profession and allows retirement after 30 years' service. As my post is specialised I felt l could still offer a good service to those whom I served and I continued to work full-time.This meant that I was providing a service for half pay as I would receive half-salary as pension if I stayed at home.
However, the introduction of the pension levy is forcing me to end a career which gave me great job satisfaction and more importantly helped other people through distressing periods in their lives.
My employers will now have to pay full salary to my successor and half salary to me even though I could continue working productively for another half decade until reaching compulsory retirement age.
I shall take my pension, thereby avoiding the levy and facilitate the Government in expending a multiple of my salary for the coming years.
My situation is being replicated in all public service departments.
Has any of our erudite governing financiers done the sums? - Yours, etc,