RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

I could be wrong, but I don't think someone else can actually pick up the tab for BIK. The whole point is that the person who personally benefits from the item needs to account for it tax wise. If someone else paid the BIK on it, that in itself would be subject to BIK.

If Tubridy's contract were to be cancelled, I think Tubridy would be able to sue RTÉ, as the issue is jointly of their making, the secret deceitful top-up payments. So to actually cut him off now, how much would it cost RTÉ? I believe I heard that his contract runs to 2025, so they'd presumably have to pay him 10 grand a week for the next year and a half while not allowing him to work for RTÉ, or pay him off now perhaps up to the roughly 750k he stands to receive in his contract.

I don't want to see or hear from him again on RTÉ, but it would be a bitter pill to swallow to have to pay him off that amount of money.

You still acting the boll1x in the thread? Fair play, you are certainly committed.

If the goal is saving his career then he cannot be honest. Consider the sort of questions he is going to be asked:

Did you refuse to take a paycut? Why did you refuse to take a paycut? Why did you refuse to take a paycut and then go on TV saying that you had taken a paycut? Why did you not correct the public record that you had taken a paycut? Did you instruct your agent to raise false invoices on your behalf? Why did your agent raise false invoices on your behalf?

Answering those sorts of questions honestly is likely to leave him looking grubby and money hungry, and admitting to things now also means you are admitting to dishonesty in the past. It just doesn't work in his position, you can't moralise to the masses when you have been caught out like that.

So career wise his only option is to duck and dive, tread the fine line of appearing to be helpful while still trying to avoid the worst of the dirt. Its a very fine line to walk and once you are walking it you are committed to it.

Maybe he will go in and be honest, maybe he will actually volunteer information without being forced and prove that he is actually contrite. All things are possible, but I know what Noel Kelly will be advising him to do.

Abuse is abuse. Bekind. Slagging someone off for being in a bedsit is abuse and not kind. Not cool.

Have you withdrawn your ridiculous accusation to another poster wondering why they didn't ask if Marty had a body in the boot of the car?

You seem ignorant of the basic facts.

Marty himself has said he needs to check out if his tax affairs are in order.

So will you now withdraw your accusation? It would be the kind thing to do.

Pray tell how it works then as here is what revenue states: You will need to calculate the ‘cash equivalent’ of your employee’s private use of the employer-provided vehicle. This is the amount that you will add to your employee's pay.

so basically the benefit of the car is valued and taxed and prsi’d, so what I imagine is that in order for a brand ambassador to be interested in doing that role I would imagine the car provider would pickup that tax bill.

but do tell, fascinated to know how this should be handled

I think you need to read my comment again.

Your main problem is that you think I can be caught out, on an internet message board, as if this is some game of any importance. In reality I had to go back and find out who you even where and why you were quoting me.

I have never once done anything except offer my opinion on this matter, so your blather about me claiming things regarding the barter account is a bit ridiculous really. It is also a misrepresentation of what actually happened.

Lose all credibility? Oh no, that would be terrible.

Have the last word if you please, it seems important to you.

I hear ye, but really, considering there’s already a lot of people with pitchforks out for Tubridy, (apparently on Twitter?) fudging the answers will just increase the mob mentality and other people will jump on board for the hell of it.

As I say I don’t like Tubridy and I’ve questioned why he’s been paid so much for doing such a bad job for years now, that I’m just bored even mentioning it at this stage- but if he wants any sort of media career on radio or tv he’s going to have to at least look like he gives half s damn

Good point- I can just hear his faux outrage voice right now - aaaaaagggghhhh- make it go away freshpopcorn, make it go away!!!😛

Even if RTE were scrapped or made 100% subscription funded (neither of which are at all likely), there would still be some kind of licence or tax to fund the BAI's Broadcasting fund (that supports programmes about Irish culture, heritage and adult literacy on any channel, not just RTE) and TG4 (currently funded indirectly via RTE themselves). And as I've posted before, I think it's likely that this will hasten the universal Household Media Charge that the government has already committed to. We're not going to escape it.

Yeah but such conditions are usually for completing the contract term, like how he was supposed to get $120k for completing the 2015-2020 contract. With this contract, it was for radio & TV, but because he quit TLLS, he's now out of contract because they had to renegotiate it for a radio-only contract.

They said in the most recent hearing that he's not currently under contract, and hasn't been paid in the past month. It's likely they'll have to pay him something for the few weeks he did the radio show while not under contract, but I don't think he has any recourse against them for anything else. His contract ended early through mutual agreement because he gave up TLLS, and a new contract for radio only wasn't finalised. So he's not under any contract currently.