Joe Lynam

And how

would revenue ever know if you've given a summer barbecue or if you've given a Christmas party?

And they might even ask for the names of the participants, of those people who are there.

So the moral of the story is make sure you don't go over €1,500, otherwise revenue will be looking for benefit in kind from the employee.

OK, let's move to the other topic we discussed, which is the contractor's deadline.

And this all goes back to Domino's pizzas.

So if they should have been on payroll, there's an opportunity for... In other words, they're pretending to be, you know, sole traders billing the company, but the vast majority of their income came from just one person or one entity.

Yeah.

And public approach.

probation because the tax defaulters list was published yesterday.

It wasn't as well.

So they will name and give the personal address of the people who haven't paid their tax.

And potentially imprisonment.

I saw one or two people getting imprisonment.

A lot of it was suspended, but one or two are definitely going to jail for not paying their taxes.

So the message for employers is use this opportunity.

Don't pay any punitive taxes.

But if you don't, potentially you could end up in the paper like a lot of people did yesterday.

Michelle, thanks so much for coming in.

That's Michelle Dunn, the Employment Tax Director with Grant Thornton.