FAMILY FINANCE has been a best seller in Ireland for over thirty years. It is written in an easy to read style. The aim is to provide you with information that can help to save or make you money. There is advice on most of the financial problems that the average family can encounter.

Business journalist Colm Rapple writes extensively on a wide range of financial and business matters. He is also a regular broadcaster on radio and television.

Topics in the current 2010 edition include

• The 2010 budget changes
  
• What's happening to the income and health levies
  
• Cutting your tax bill
• Surviving redundancy
  
• Other tax topics: self-employed income, covenants, inheritance and gift taxes
• Propery, a time to buy?
  
• Social Welfare
• Consumer and worker rights
• Life assurance - avoiding the pitfalls
• Pensions
• Borrowing - getting the best deal
• Car and home insurance, getting the best deals
  
• Making a will and taking out probate