Have your Returns been made on time?

Company Secretarial

The obligation on directors to keep the company statutory records is overwhelming.

Let us help you with:

• Forming a company.
• Registering a business name.
• Prepare and submit annual returns and all company secretarial documents to the CRO.
• Prepare the minutes of board meetings, AGM’s and EGM’S.
• Advise on the responsibilities of directors and the company secretary.
• Advise on the issue, transfer and buy back of shares.
• Change the company name.
• Change the directors/company secretary.
• Change the registered office.
• Provide a registered office facility.
• Establish and maintain the company registers.
• Deal with company strike off and dissolution.

We are Chartered Accountants – never underestimate our value.

We make the returns under all the major legal and taxation regulatory environments such as:

• Company Annual Returns to the Companies Registration Office
• Corporation Tax Returns to the Revenue Commissioners
• VAT, PAYE Returns to the Revenue Commissioners
• Income Tax Returns to the Revenue Commissioners
• Annual Returns to the Charities Authorities
• Annual Reports to Licensing Authorities

If assistance with regulatory compliance is what you are looking for; we're here to help...

Contact us now for a short, no-obligation chat about how we can work together.

Corporate and Business Taxes

We can reduce your tax exposure and the administrative burden of complying with tax legislation by:

Corporation tax

• Finding the best tax structure for your business.
• Obtaining all of tax credits, exemptions, reliefs and capital allowances for you.
• Getting the best capital or revenue tax treatment for your company.
• Acting for you in discussions with the Revenue Commissioners.
• Using double taxation agreement reliefs for international companies.
• The timely filing of corporation tax and corporation tax returns.

Private companies

• The setting up of group corporate structures for tax relief.
• The re-organisation of existing group corporate structures for tax relief.
• Reducing tax on disposals and acquisitions.

Business disposal

• Reducing capital gains on sale of a business.
• Disposal of the shares or the assets of a company.
• VAT on disposal of the business assets.
• Tax reliefs in extracting cash from a company on retirement.
• Passing on a portion of the proceeds to others in a tax efficient manner.

Company directors and shareholders

• Annual salary planning for tax purposes.
• Mileage and subsistence schemes.
• Tax efficient extraction of cash from private companies.
• Pension planning for the company director on retirement.
• The use of retirement funding for the purchase of property.
• Retirement strategies to extract maximum cash from the company tax free

Employee incentive schemes

• Share incentive schemes, share option schemes and approved profit sharing schemes.

Revenue audits

• Review of potential problems prior to Revenue audit.
• Preparation of voluntary disclosures.
• Negotiations and settlement.
• Representation at Revenue Commissioners Appeal Hearings.
• VAT
• VAT registration.
• VAT planning and administration.
• VAT schemes.
• VAT control and reconciliation.
• Filing VAT returns.
• Problems solving with the Revenue Commissioners.
• Negotiations and settlements.
• Group VAT registration.

Corporate presence in Ireland or abroad

• The best tax structure for setting up a business in Ireland or abroad. Avoiding a permanent establishment in a country with a higher corporation tax rate than Ireland

Personal Taxes

We provide specialist personal tax advice and services for:

Income tax

• Finding all available tax credits, opportunities, exemptions and reliefs.
• Using available tax reliefs to reduce income tax liabilities.
• Building employment termination packages for low income tax exposure.
• The timely payment and filing of income tax and income tax returns.

Capital gains tax (CGT)

• Finding available reliefs for the sale of a business, property or any other capital asset.
• Reduce CGT payable e.g. CGT retirement relief, principal private residence relief or the transfer of a site to a child relief.
• The CGT free transfer of a sole trader’s business to a limited liability company.
• Calculating and timely filing of relevant returns.

Capital acquisitions tax (CAT)

• Planning and reviewing a will.
• Finding CAT exemptions.
• Transferring assets into trusts.
• Section 60 insurance policies to cover potential CAT liabilities.
• Transfer of assets to others in a tax efficient manner.
• Finding CAT business property relief to pass on business assets or private trading companies. The Finding CAT agricultural property relief to pass on farming land and assets.
• Using fixed, bare and discretionary trusts as tax efficient ways for the passing on of assets.
• Calculating and the timely filing of CAT returns.

Tax residence and domicile

• Tax residency, ordinary tax residency and domicile status for tax purposes.
• Limiting income tax liabilities.
• Double taxation agreement reliefs.

Estates and trusts

• Taxation of fixed, bare and discretionary trusts.
• The calculation of all tax liabilities and the timely filing of returns in estates and trusts.

Marital disputes

• The settlement of family assets without a tax charge.
• The method of assessment and tax credits for each spouse in the year of separation/divorce and future years.