TheLowdown Tips for SMEs

Cormac Fitzgerald, president CPA Ireland

Meeting your company’s registration office deadlines

Missing the filing deadline for a company’s annual return to the Companies Registration Office (CRO) can be a costly mistake for a company. In 2013 alone, Irish companies paid more than €10 million in late-filing penalties.

While the total amounts paid in late-filing penalties is gradually decreasing (in 2012 it was €11 million) it still represents a significant amount of money that could be ...