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GAZE1TE
DECEMBER 1977
LAW SOCIETY NOTES
CORRESPONDENCE
Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Dublin Castle,
Dublin 2.
2 December, 1977
Mr. J. J. Ivors,
Director General,
The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,
A Chara,
I am directed by the Revenue Commissioners to refer
to previous correspondence and to the recent meeting
which you attended in this office to discuss the failure of a
number of solicitors to furnish the statutory returns which
are required in accordance with the provisions of Section
176 of the Income Tax Act, 1976.
As indicated at that meeting the results of a recent
survey to ascertain the extent to which solicitors have
complied with their statutory obligations in relation to the
two years ended 5 April, 1977, have been disappointing.
The Commissioners now have no alternative but to
consider the question of instituting proceedings against
defaulting solicitors for recovery of the penalties provided
by law for failure to make the returns required by Section
176. However, in view of the representations made by
you on behalf of those members who will now find
themselves faced with such proceedings the
Commissioners are prepared to defer action in the matter
until after 1 February, 1978 in order to afford a further
opportunity to the defaulting solicitors to comply with the
obligation imposed by section 176. Cases in which the
statutory returns for the two years ended 5 April, 1977,
are still outstanding on 1 February, 1978, will
regrettably, become the subject of penalty proceedings
without further notice. It is considered that adequate
warnings have already been issued to the solicitors in
question by their inspectors of taxes.
Mise, le meas,
A. B. NÍ GHEALBHÁIN
Note: The Council of the Society at its meeting on 27
March, 1975, agreed that it was not prepared to go
further than had been agreed between the Society's
representatives and the Chairman of the Revenue
Commissioners, i.e. that information would be limited to
monies paid in respect of rents, dividends, and interest on
clients' accounts.
FAMILY LAW CASES
The Master of the High Court has kindly arranged
with the Society that Family Law Cases will be specially
listed for hearing by him on Wednesday morning of each
week during the Court Term. The Bar is aware of and
concurs in the foregoing arrangement.
NEW NOTARY PUBLIC
The Chief Justice, the Honourable T. F.
O'Higgins has appointed Mr. Gerard M. Doyle, Solicitor,
a Notary Public. Mr. Doyle, who is also a Commissioner
for Oaths, is Senior Partner in the Firm of Rutledge,
Doyle & Co., Solicitors of 50 Lower O'Connell Street,
Dublin, and is a Past President of The Dublin Solicitors
Bar Association and presently a Member of the Council
of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
Conditions of Sole/Requisitions
on Title
Regretfully, due to increases in printing costs, it is
necessary to amend selling prices as follows:—
Conditions of Sale
Packets of 50 — £4.50.
Packets of 100 — £8.00.
Packets of 10 — £1.00.
(Postage extra)
Requisitions on Title
Packets of 50 — £6.00.
Packets of 100 — £1.30.
(Postage extra)
Director General.
26 January, 1978.
LAW SOCIETY
THREE-DAY
CONFERENCE
Dunloe Castle Hotel, Kfllarney
FRIDAY, 5th M A Y -
SUNDAY, 7th MAY 1978
Programme subjects will include—
"The Abolition of the Scale Fee?"
"Have the Courts failed the Family?"
"Should Single Practitioner Offices be
Abolished?"
"Child Criminals?"
This is
not
a Seminar. This is
not
the old Half-
Yearly Meeting. This is
an opportunity
for the
profession to express their views on important
issues both legal and social.
Full programme will be circulated shortly.
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