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Keeping up to speed with range of changes to company car tax

The move to a CO2-based benefit-in-kind system level to determine company car tax incentivises the use of electric vehicles and lower emission cars while temporary tax reliefs are available for higher-emitting vehicles

Tánaiste: tax treatment of small landlords is ‘not fair’

Martin tells Business Post government working to ‘shift the balance’ in rental market

EIIS and KEEP must be made more effective and accessible

Scale Ireland’s State of Start-ups Survey 2023 made it clear that the two schemes are vital but need to be reassessed

Comment: Ireland’s tolerance of tax loopholes causes serious harm to poor countries

Nobel Prize-winning economists have said the country’s opposition to reforming the international system is ‘a success for Ireland, a loss for the rest of the world’

Landlords waiving eviction rights should get tax breaks, says policy paper

Focus Ireland and Chartered Accountants have devised a list of policy measures government could implement to stem the exit of small landlords from the rental market

John Walsh: Increasing property tax could do a lot more for the state’s coffers than a wealth levy

People can move assets to other jurisdictions to avoid a wealth tax, a problem that would not be there with a revised property tax

Cooperative Compliance Framework opens up useful communication channels

CCF is voluntary, but there are benefits to both businesses and Revenue where a corporate group signs up

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Tom Maguire: New challenges for firms faced with increasingly complex tax audits

When managing tax obligations, it’s important that businesses understand the changes under Revenue’s updated code of compliance

Kellogg moves nearly €2bn in global sales through Irish arm

Company plays an important role in Kellogg’s overall tax planning, and paid just €11m tax last year

Time is of the essence in applying for business energy subsidies

There is a monthly cap on the Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme that provides for a cash payment to qualifying businesses, and time limits for claiming support

Emergency measure extended to ensure companies are not wound up over €10,000 debts

The move comes as thousands of businesses struggle with issues such as supply backlogs and surging energy costs

Dutch Railways moves €250m by liquidating Irish firms after tax avoidance row

The Dublin companies were the subject of fierce criticism in the Netherlands

Brian Keegan: Tax breaks for developers are the elephant in the room

Nobody wants to be seen to profit from the housing crisis, but everyone loses out if we insist on retaining the tax status quo

Tom Maguire: Why it’s important to KEEP going on employee share options

Amendments to the Key Employee Engagement Programme qualification conditions and extension of the scheme to 2025 are positive moves, but there’s still room for improvement

US multinationals told state to simplify ‘cumbersome’ tax system or face losing investment

American Chamber of Commerce said Ireland should change to a territorial system which taxes companies on income derived within its borders and is considered a simpler model for taxing multinationals

Gerassimos Thomas: Why environmental taxes need to be doubled to achieve Europe’s green transition

Revenues from environmental taxes in the EU have remained stagnant at a very low level for the last decade, standing at around 2.2 per cent of GDP in 2020, writes the European Commission’s Director General for Taxation and Customs Union

Brian Keegan: Despite external risks, domestic policy errors would do more harm

Conditions may be chaotic, but the outlook for the Irish exchequer is not necessarily bleak

Billions of euro in corporate tax this year a once-off, Finance warns

Revenue and Department of Finance officials predict that €2 billion in business tax receipts will not be repeated in 2023, which is likely to raise concerns about the sustainability of Ireland’s bumper corporate tax receipts

Tom Maguire: Finance Bill’s changes to R&D could go further for start-ups

Boosting the tax credit for SMEs to 30 per cent was mooted in an earlier bill, but to do so, some EU legal hurdles would first have to be overcome

Brian Keegan: Tax and support policy must also urgently accommodate property sector

Last week’s budget correction in the Finance Bill means that trades, manufacturing and services are now treated equally in terms of tax and supports, but landlords and tenants need more