This is a big week for money. All of the Ryan Tubridy payment chat makes it impossible not to look at your own bank account and wonder how long it would take you to earn €345, 000.
This is also a big week for my money, as I am doing my self-return tax assessment (with the help of my fantastic and ever-patient accountant), and I also heard the news that I didn’t receive Arts Council funding to help me to write this damn book I’m supposed to be writing. But listen, I’ll just have the right the damn thing anyway, and maybe I’ll write a shinier application and get lucky next year.
Apart from a little blip last year, I have always been self-employed, but it was only in 2016 that I started to earn enough to pay my taxes. I was on the Disability Allowance since I graduated from college, earning the tidy sum of €185.50 a week. But as my work as a journalist became more prominent, my income increased and I could still maintain my €185.50 a week in 2016 (€190.50 in 2017, €195.50 in 2018, €200.50 in 2019…) because I wasn’t yet reaching the cap of the permissible €375 a week (Citizens Information).
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