My landlord is threatening to evict me because of rent arrears, what should I do. Advice seeking!

It's not the landlords problem to sort out the OPs issues with Revenue. Rent arrears are legitimate grounds to issue a termination notice.

OP, you need to put pressure on Revenue to deal with your PPSN number problem, pay your arrears, and if you're renting less than six months, hope the landlord doesn't evict you anyway.

He won't have any problem letting the space to someone who can pay.

You might work for MABs but I’m going to stop you right there and tell you that you are dead wrong.

I have personally been to MABs at a time of crisis with an ESB bill when I was very sick at the time. I had been disconnected and there was a €100 deposit required to reconnect & setup a payment plan.

the MABs agent i met with offered ESB €50 right then and there and I would follow up with €50 a few days later. They accepted this and I was reconnected within a day. This €50 came from MABs, I returned it after the bill was sorted because I had it spare and felt I owed it to them.

Im not saying MABs will bail out the OP but they absolutely have facilities to offer some payments clearly. Maybe only some do, but it’s still done.

Is the landlord officially registered or is it a casual cash arrangement? Are you a legally registered tenant? A registered landlord will ordinarily request evidence of being able to pay, and you will have likely have paid a substantial deposit. This smells to me of being a casual arrangement where landlord is a tax evader. If this is the case you can always report to Revenue, but you will certainly be out on your own.

Report what to revenue?

“hi my landlords not paying tax on the rent I’m not paying him”

Maybe! My guess would be they kept a small amount of money in a bank account specifically for these reasons? As I said, it may not be every branch or every person but it’s more likely to me they have such an account than the advisor did it off their own back.

Who knows though.

I think Yflyer is implying that the OP is a media intern.

Which seems feasible, actually - considering some of the fishy details that others have pointed out, e.g. the OP has no credit history, no previous references...

But sure who knows?

I think you know what I mean, Graham Sweet Wolverine, more fake landlords reported the better.

OP, how much of a deposit did you pay? One or two months rent in advance?

It’s not stupid at all it’s called living in the real world. In the real world a lot of adults do not have previously letting experience as they may not have moved into their own house yet.

If they were in college living at home for example. My brother is one of those people. He was in college the past 4 years, now has been working about 7 months still living with the folks.

Would a landlord be stupid because they rent him a house in future when he can’t give a LL reference?

i suppose his employer is stupid also since they hired him without a previous employers reference given it was his first job.

He has a job though? He just is on Emergency Tax (allegedly). Mind you I find it rather strange he’s being taxed @ 52%. Emergency tax or otherwise.

edit: yea this story is BS. Emergency Tax without a PPSN is 40% PAYE & 8% USC across the board. The OP simply cannot be taxed & 52% it makes no sense.

No it’s capped at 40%. You are prob thinking about when you are taxed @ 20% for 5 weeks then it goes to 40% until you get it sorted out.

PRSI is Whatever% it doesn’t have a set amount it is as it’s name implies related to how much you are earning.

also might be wrong but based on how PRSI is calculated I would guess emergency tax rates are irrelevant (and also there’s no mention about ET & PRSI on revenue only PAYE & USC)