Marty Morrissey Tax on Car

Currently, Benefit in Kind is only on Employer provided non cash assets eg cars but Renault weren't his employer and there isn't a "tax rule" that states benefit in kind is payable on third party provided assets/perks

Side note : It's a weird one, because benefit in kind is deducted from your salary by your employer by adding the perk to your wages and deducting the tax

But again, Renault aren't his employer so they wouldn't have done this

I'm not sure if a tax bill will even come of this story

But it does open up a loop hole in the tax system

"Logically yes" but there isn't anything in the tax law for that , weird I know

It's taxable, it just depends under what banner

Third party benefits https://www.revenue.ie/en/employing-people/benefit-in-kind-for-employers/other-benefits/third-party-benefits.aspx .

Could marty be seen as an employee of Renault and Car use wa his payment.

CAT- for use of car

It might have been Renault rather then Marty that pulled the use of the car too.

Did he hand back a 5 year old car or did he get a new car every year?

They weren't paying him so there was no money to take any tax from

This is the best PR job i ever seen. The story is now about Marty's car, a few grand for slippers and some events none of which i agree with.

However the real story is likely billions wasted on overpaid presenters, managers that are unaccountable, i heard a manager saying this was affecting her mental health so she should go to the doctor and take sick leave. The real storyis is now a side-show as this all about things that are pretty regular commercial arrangements, like company cars etc. To me all of this diverting from the real story. Whatever minister who is in charge of this department should be resigning, also all of the board out. Then we start the review... But no we will take several months to have the review and it will quietly fade from public view with the help of PR spin.

BTW i expect Tubs may be back on the radio in Sept. However RTE will likely offer him a nice package to disappear. it is widely accepted that he did nothing wrong so they cannot sack him and he has a contract i expect. At the end of the day we all get what we deserve...

Case 4 Schedule D might cover this. A distant memory of how it works.

MM had an obligation to disclose the use of the car, calculate the benefit and include it in his Form 11.

Hiding behind not being an employee of the car supplier won't be accepted by Revenue. Interest and penalties will be the killer.

Renault Ireland were for sure paying for the car or cars as a distributor. And writing the cost of these off against sales to garages etc.

They seem to hand this car or cars then to Marty and had no direct payment from him but instead services rendered.

Just another twist on the 'Barter' arrangement which stinks of tax avoidance.

I wonder if Renault were paying VAT on the provision of this vehicle, as would be required. I'm presuming they were providing a new vehicle each year and Marty wasn't driving around in a 2017 Renault Clio.

What do high level GAA, rugby players, and "influencers" do in similar situations? This is a long established custom, there must be a procedure.

Now that M Morrissey's car is public knowledge, and that Revenue are aware of it, why not leave Revenue to sort it out? Revenue are quite capable of enforcing the tax laws without the public piling in with their tuppence worth.

The same man owns a number of houses near UL - if you were 5 minutes late with your rent youd be turfed out!

The Rich really are laughing at the rest of us !

You are spouting total rubbish. For a start there is nothing wrong with owning a few houses. For another thing, being 5 minutes late with rent could not warrant any legal eviction,, never mind summary "turfing out".

Everything thinks they’re an expert.

It's a forum for tax issues as opposed to blovating about an individual's tax affairs.

You are a good example of how so much of the RTE discussion has become completely dominated by emotion and envy.

Do you not agree that RTE like Turbidy & Marty are getting paid far too much when the Station is been paid for by the people of the country through license fees ...and they looking to increase the liicensee fees ??

RTE staff are earning ridicolous sums compared to BBC which has 60 Million people to serve unlike our 5 million.