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Employers should be aware that there have been a number of significant changes to the calculation of employee deductions and the Universal Social Charge (USC) as a result of the 2011 Budget as follows:

Relevant contract tax is a withholding tax which applies to all those involved in construction, forestry, and meat processing operations. The legislation obliges the principal contractor to deduct 35 per cent tax from the amount payable to contractors/subcontractors engaged to carry out activities for which he/she does not hold a relevant payment card. In general, a principal contractor may include property developers, building companies, construction trades. Local authorities and public utilities companies established under statute are also deemed to be principal contractors. The principal contractor is also obliged to maintain records of all payments regardless of whether they have a relevant payment card on file for them.

More and more people are now looking at the option of self-employment due to the current economic climate. For some people, it is an opportunity to explore a business idea that they may have had in the back of their minds for some time, but never pursued owing to the lack of time or perhaps the comfort of the relatively ‘secure income’ they may have enjoyed in employment.

Without customers there are no sales and without sales there is no business. However, customers don’t focus on the features or obvious characteristics of a product or service.

Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock TD, has urged businesses to avail of the opportunity to attend a Government-sponsored free seminar, ‘Building a Business on Your Ideas’, to be held in The Parade Tower, Kilkenny on Thursday May 5 next.

If you are starting up or running a small business, the Kilkenny County Enterprise Board is running free taster sessions which provide a short introduction to some of their 2011 Training Programmes. A taster session will help you decide if the course is for you.

Individuals, organisations, voluntary groups, and companies across Kilkenny and the southeast are being invited to enter this year’s Spirit of Enterprise Michael Dee Award.

“The show must go on, so let’s get going now,” is the optimistic message from female entrepreneurs, business women, and the Kilkenny County Enterprise Board who are all involved in a major conference and awards scheme in the southeast next month.

Mayor Martin Brett and Cathaoirleach of Kilkenny County Council Catherine Connery will jointly launch the Job Seekers Information and Education Expo which is being held at the

In a recent survey carried out on the Kilkenny city centre shopping experience, it was discovered that 29 per cent of people surveyed do their grocery shopping outside of the city centre.