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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
The deadline for paper LPT return forms is today Tuesday 7 May. The postmark on completed paper returns must be 7 May if the return is to be treated as being filed on time. However, an additional three weeks is available where the LPT return is filed online (28 May). Extended open.....
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Tax receipts to end-April at €10.94 billion are broadly on profile and €145 million ahead of the same period in 2012, according to Exchequer receipts published last week. It is clear that Irish citizens and businesses are just about managing to pay the taxes being levied upon them, with littl.....
Sunday, May 05, 2013
The deadline date for electronic filing of Local Property Tax returns is 28 May 2013. As members' clients work through their returns to understand their obligations, the Institute has created a short video highlighting the key points to consider. In the video, Insitute Direc.....
Friday, May 03, 2013
Following recent discussions at the informal meeting of the ECOFIN Council in Dublin, Minister Michael Noonan, President of ECOFIN for the Irish Presidency and EU Commissioner for Taxation Algirdas Šemeta have written to all EU finance ministers in advance of the next ECOFIN meeting scheduled for 1.....
Friday, May 03, 2013
HMRC has published a note summarising the outcome of the first two years since online filing became mandatory for virtually all Company Tax Returns, and gives advice on some key issues for the future. The note mentions that, in keeping with the announcement last summer, there will be no major chang.....
Friday, May 03, 2013
The headline item for this year’s Revenue Annual Report is of course the item that falls outside the year of assessment - the administration of the new Local Property Tax. Revenue claims they never before have handled a project of this scale in such a short timeframe. Regarding the day .....
Monday, April 29, 2013
The ECJ has found that Spanish law which taxes unrealised capital gains on the transfer of the place of residence or of the assets of a company established in Spain to another Member State is contrary to EU law. In a judgement delivered in Case C-64/11 Commission versus Spain the ECJ noted th.....
Monday, April 29, 2013
The European Commission has referred Spain to the ECJ over its real estate tax rules, while Denmark has been formally requested to amend its law on the taxation of dividends distributed to foreign “investment institutes”. Under Spanish tax law capital gains from the sale of a permanent residence ar.....
Monday, April 29, 2013
The G20 says that more needs to be done to address the issues of international tax avoidance and evasion, in particular through tax havens, as well as non-cooperative jurisdictions. It also called for all jurisdictions to sign or express interest in signing the OECD’s Multilateral Convention on Mut.....
Monday, April 29, 2013
Following recent discussions at the informal meeting of the ECOFIN Council in Dublin, Minister Michael Noonan, President of ECOFIN for the Irish Presidency and EU Commissioner for Taxation Algirdas Šemeta have written to all EU finance ministers in advance of the next ECOFIN meeting scheduled for 1.....