01Home energy
Everyday costs
Appliance costs
See how much your immersion, dryer, gaming PC or EV charge really costs at your own Irish unit rate, with 45 appliances ranked by what each one adds to the year.
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The collection
Find the right tool for the decision in front of you.
Search 26 Ireland-first calculators, comparisons and guided checkers, and 3 decision guides that put them in order. Every tool publishes the figures it runs on, says whether each one came from a named source or is a Verdanyx assumption, and carries the date it was last reviewed.
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Decision guides
Pensions · 4 steps
MyFutureFund in Ireland: four decisions you can check without guesswork
Four MyFutureFund decisions in the order they have to be taken, opening with the ordinary opt-out window that expires, on the statutory rules in the 2024 Act and Revenue's current tables.
Investing · 3 steps
Tax on an ETF or fund in Ireland: which question to answer first
Funds and ETFs are not all taxed the same way in Ireland. Establish which set of rules an Irish resident's holding falls under, find when the eight-year deemed disposal charge lands, then weigh a fund against shares held directly.
Home energy · 4 steps
Upgrading an Irish home: which question to answer first
The order an Irish home upgrade has to be taken in, and what sets it: the technical assessment gate that makes insulation a precondition of the heat-pump grant, and dwelling-age conditions that do not all match.
02Pensions
MyFutureFund
Opt out or stay
Work out the exact dates of your ordinary MyFutureFund opt-out window from your enrolment notice, and what an opt-out refunds, on the rules in the 2024 auto-enrolment Act.
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03Pensions
MyFutureFund payroll
Contribution checker
Check the exact MyFutureFund contribution on one pay period from your year-to-date and current gross, including the €80,000 threshold-breaching pay-period rule payroll actually applies.
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04Pensions
Pension comparison
MyFutureFund or PRSA
Compare MyFutureFund with a PRSA on the gross contribution each buys per €100 of take-home cost, with relief worked from your own Revenue rate band and credits, not a flat marginal rate.
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05Pensions
Payslip
Take-home pay
Reconcile an Irish payslip from the Income Tax, USC, PRSI and MyFutureFund figures printed on it, and see exactly what the MyFutureFund line costs that payslip.
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06Resilience
Storm planning
Backup power
Size a portable power station for an Irish power cut on all three limits that matter: continuous load, simultaneous peak and motor start-up surge, from the fridge to a well pump.
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07Home energy
Home efficiency
BER estimate
Estimate an Irish home's band on the A-G BER scale in force since May 2026, anchored on CSO averages for real homes of the same age and type, with the neighbouring bands shown.
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08Business
Small business
Card-payment fees
Rank five public Irish card-processing routes from Square, SumUp, Stripe and Revolut Business on your own turnover and channel split, with percentage, per-sale and monthly plan costs kept apart.
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09Investing
The eight-year rule
Deemed disposal
Find your deemed disposal years under Ireland's 8-year rule, estimate the 38% exit tax at today's value net of tax already paid, and see whether an anniversary went by unsettled.
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10Health & home
Damp & condensation
Dehumidifier size
Size a dehumidifier for an Irish room from the machines actually on sale here, with compressor and desiccant kept apart and running costs taken from published manufacturer specifications.
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11Grants
Electric vehicles
EV charger grant
Check the €300 SEAI home-charger grant, including the charger-arm route open to homes with no off-street parking, and compare home, public and petrol costs on your own mileage.
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12Business
Business setup
Food-business route
Find which Irish authority to notify and whether a home kitchen, stall, food truck, café, catering or manufacturing idea needs ordinary registration or full approval, with a starting budget.
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13Costs
Travel money
Spending abroad
Compare what a month abroad costs on Revolut Standard and Premium, N26, AIB and Bank of Ireland, with each provider's allowances, per-withdrawal minimums and caps applied.
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14Investing
ETF and fund tax
Which fund rules apply
Check which Irish tax rules apply to your ETF, fund or life assurance policy, including exit tax, deemed disposal, loss relief and what you file, from its domicile and legal form.
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15Home energy
Heating
Heat pump costs
Compare a heat pump with oil, mains gas or direct electric heating on your own demand, tariff, boiler efficiency and SCOP, opening on published Irish fuel prices you can overwrite.
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16Home energy
Solar & tariffs
Home battery
Size a home battery and test its payback against the three limits that actually bind: what it holds, what the household can use out of it, and how much surplus your roof really makes.
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17Investing
Funds and shares
Fund vs shares tax
Compare the after-tax outcome of an ETF or fund with shares in Ireland, including 38% exit tax, deemed disposal, 33% CGT and dividend tax.
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18Travel
Travel data
Roaming vs eSIM
Compare Irish mobile roaming with a travel eSIM for your own network, destination and trip length, on the published day passes, per-MB rates and fair-use allowances of eight named Irish plans.
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19Costs
Online shopping
Customs charges
Price an online order of €150 or less from Great Britain or elsewhere outside the EU: Irish VAT, the temporary €3 charge and An Post's €6.95 fee, at Revenue's current monthly customs rate.
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20Health & home
Indoor health
Radon priority
Look this home's own area up in the EPA's radon risk map rather than its county, and see how urgently it should be tested and what a test, or fixing a high result, costs in Ireland.
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21Costs
Winter warmth
Room heating
Compare a heated throw, electric blanket, fan heater, oil-filled radiator, panel heater and infrared panel on the same room and evening, and against simply running the central heating.
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22Grants
2026 grant
Heat pump grant
Check the SEAI heat-pump grant as the bundle it actually is: unit, central-heating work and Renewable Heat Bonus, each with its own conditions and its own apartment maximum.
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23Grants
2026 grant
Insulation grants
Work out the fixed SEAI attic, cavity, internal and external wall grants for your own dwelling type, including the enhanced rates and the second wall grant allowed since March 2026.
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24Grants
2026 grant
Solar grant
Check SEAI solar grant eligibility and get generation, bill value and simple payback for your own roof, on yields checked against the European Commission's PVGIS data for ten Irish towns.
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25Home energy
Solar hot water
Solar diverter
Test whether diverting surplus solar into an immersion actually beats the export payment you give up under the Clean Export Guarantee, at your own export rate and cost of heat.
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26Home energy
Time-of-use electricity
Smart tariff
Compare a day, night and peak smart plan with your standard 24-hour rate on the ESB Networks time bands and the CRU load profile every Irish supplier's own bill estimate starts from.
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