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Budget 2027 Ireland: What Changed and Which Calculator

Every Budget 2027 tax change for Irish workers, investors, home buyers and drivers, with exact figures, start dates and a calculator for each.

A security finding without a fix is just homework

A scan that returns 223 findings isn't a deliverable. Deduplicating across engines, catching the severity ceiling that silently downgrades every critical, and putting an exact fix on every line — with real report examples.

Where the disk space actually goes on a developer's Mac

macOS says "System Data, 180 GB" and leaves you there. The real answer is usually Ollama and Hugging Face model weights, Xcode derived data, and a Docker disk image that doesn't shrink when you prune it.

Your clipboard manager should ignore your password manager

Clipboard history tools see everything you copy, including passwords and 2FA codes. There's a long-standing convention for opting out — and honouring it is only half the job, because the on-disk file is the real boundary.

How duplicate file finders decide what's a duplicate

Name matching, perceptual matching and content hashing give very different answers — and APFS clones mean the space you'd reclaim is often not the space the tool reports.

On-device OCR on a Mac, with no server in the loop

Apple's Vision framework does neural text recognition locally and for free, which makes sending screenshots to a cloud OCR API a choice rather than a requirement. Plus the parts that are harder than the recognition.

The quiet cost of "free online PDF tools"

Merging two PDFs shouldn't mean uploading a contract to a stranger's server. PDFKit, Core Image and Vision are already installed — and redaction in particular is worth doing yourself.

How to prove a Mac app makes no network calls

"We never send your data anywhere" is a claim. otool and nm turn it into something you can check in ten seconds — along with the four cases those commands don't cover.

macgroom-cli: A Free, Open-Source Terminal Tool for Dev Cache Cleanup

Same three categories that are free in the MacGroom app, from the terminal: local AI model caches, dev tool caches, and recursive project artifacts. Open source, MIT-licensed, zero telemetry, Trash not rm.

How Irish Income Tax, USC & PRSI Work in 2026

Free Irish income tax calculator for 2026. Calculate Income Tax, USC, and PRSI with a full band breakdown and annual, monthly, weekly, and daily take-home figures.

Salary Comparison Calculator Ireland

Compare two Irish salary scenarios side by side — different income, category, or PRSI period — with full Income Tax, USC, and PRSI breakdowns for each.

How Much of a Pay Rise You Keep in Ireland

See exactly how much of a payrise you keep in Ireland after Income Tax, USC, and PRSI, comparing take-home before and after side by side.

How Bonus & RSU Tax Works in Ireland

Calculate the Income Tax, USC, and PRSI on a bonus or RSU vesting in Ireland, and see the net amount you actually receive at your marginal rate.

Budget 2027 Calculator Ireland

Budget 2027 is confirmed: a €46,500 standard rate band, €125 higher credits and a wider USC band. Enter your salary to see what it's worth to you from 1 January 2027.

2025 vs 2026 Irish Tax: What Changed and What You Keep

Compare your Irish take-home pay under 2025 and 2026 tax bands side by side to see exactly how the Budget changed your net income.

Take-Home Goal Calculator Ireland

Enter the take-home pay you need in Ireland, and find the gross salary required to hit it after Income Tax, USC, and PRSI.

Irish Contractor Day Rate to Take-Home: How It Works

Calculate net take-home for an Irish day-rate contractor after Income Tax, USC, and self-employed PRSI, with expenses and pension contribution options.

Contracting vs PAYE in Ireland: How the Maths Works

Compare day-rate contracting against a PAYE salaried role in Ireland, including the employer-funded benefits a contractor has to self-fund.

My Future Fund Calculator 2026

Calculate what My Future Fund, Ireland's new auto-enrolment pension, takes from your pay and what lands in your pot — employee, employer and State top-up, projected to retirement.

Irish Tax Credits You Might Be Missing in 2026

Check what Irish tax credits and reliefs you might be missing — rent credit, remote working relief, medical expenses, flat-rate expenses — and how far back you can claim.

Benefit in Kind Calculator Ireland 2026

Calculate Irish Benefit in Kind tax for 2026 — company car by CO2 category and business mileage, company van, and employer-paid health insurance — at your real marginal rate.

ETF vs Shares vs Pension in Ireland: Tax Compared

See the same investment taxed three different ways in Ireland — 38% ETF exit tax with 8-year deemed disposal, 33% CGT on shares, or tax-free growth in a pension.

Deemed Disposal Calculator Ireland 2026

Calculate the exit tax due on an Irish ETF or fund holding at each 8-year deemed disposal, and the real long-term cost to your compounding.

Capital Gains Tax Calculator Ireland 2026

Calculate Irish Capital Gains Tax across multiple disposals in a tax year — shares, cryptocurrency, and property — netting gains against losses before the €1,270 exemption.

DIRT Calculator Ireland 2026

Compare a bank or credit union deposit after 33% DIRT against DIRT-free State Savings from An Post, over any time horizon.

Irish Inheritance & Gift Tax (CAT) 2026: How It Works

Calculate Irish Capital Acquisitions Tax on a gift or inheritance — Group A/B/C thresholds, 33% rate, small gift exemption, agricultural and business relief.

Home Buying Costs Calculator Ireland 2026

VRT Calculator Ireland 2026

Estimate Irish Vehicle Registration Tax for importing a car — the full 20-band CO2 table, the NOx emissions levy, and BEV relief, in one calculator.

National Childcare Scheme 2026: How the Subsidy Works

Rent vs Buy Calculator Ireland 2026

Compare renting and investing the difference against buying a home in Ireland, including stamp duty, mortgage amortisation, ongoing costs and the Rent Tax Credit, projected out to…

Mortgage Overpayment Calculator Ireland

See exactly how much interest and how many months a recurring or lump-sum mortgage overpayment saves, month by month, against your original repayment schedule.

Mortgage Break Fee Calculator Ireland

Estimate the Early Repayment Charge for breaking a fixed-rate mortgage in Ireland, and whether switching to today's rate actually saves more than the fee costs.

How to Calculate Your Net Worth in Ireland

A free, no-signup net worth calculator — add up your cash, investments, pension and property, subtract your mortgage and other debts, and see the number and the mix behind it.

ARF Drawdown Calculator Ireland

Retirement Income Calculator Ireland

Work out the real Income Tax, USC and PRSI on a private or occupational pension alongside the State Pension — including the over-65 exemption, marginal relief and the over-70…

Public Sector Pension Calculator Ireland — Single Scheme & AVCs

Free Single Public Service Pension Scheme calculator for Irish civil and public servants — project your Defined Benefit pension and lump sum, and see your real AVC tax-relief headroom after your mandatory contribution.

Inside the GenOps AWS Cost Audit: What $50 Actually Buys You

A read-only scan across 12 resource analysers and 54 automated tests, a PDF report with real dollar estimates, and a 30-minute walkthrough — here's exactly what the AWS cost audit includes and how the pricing works.

Inside the GenOps Cloud Security Audit: Prowler, CIS, and a Human Read

Prowler for account checks, Trivy for containers, Checkov and Snyk for IaC — the same open-source scanners security teams run, plus a human reading every finding in context. Here's exactly what the security audit includes.

How GenOps Cloud Consulting Engagements Actually Work

Assessment, implementation, managed operations, or enablement — four engagement models, one person doing the actual work. Here's how a GenOps cloud consulting engagement is structured, and where the two live audit services fit in.

MacGroom: The Mac Cleanup Tool That Shows Its Work

Free forever, or $24 once for Deep Scan, Dev Project Artifacts, and Storage Trend. Nothing is selected or deleted until you review it yourself. Here's what MacGroom actually finds, and why scanning and deleting are always separate steps.

What a read-only AWS cost audit actually finds in week one

Idle NAT gateways, orphaned EBS volumes, and Reserved Instances nobody's tracking — the pattern shows up almost every time, before any architecture changes.