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Key Income Tax Dates

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We will look at some key Income Tax dates and how it will cost you if you miss them. Let us introduce you to Mick and Dick Moody. They are brothers and farm in partnership together. They love their music and have a wedding band called the Moody Blues. Mick has a very relaxed style

Bookkeeping – Go Paperless

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Bookkeeping – Go Paperless. Yeah right! Sure, how can we do that? I can hear you all now. That fella is pulling our leg! And why would you want to go paperless anyway? What’s in it for me? We will explore further and make a case for it by looking at. Does paper cost money?

Separation and Divorce a Taxing Issue

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In this blog, we will see how Separation and Divorce is a taxing issue for many people. They only find this out after the fact. We have seen this to be problematic in a few cases where people came to us for help getting things right. It’s not an area you would expect a person

Business Owners – 5 Tips for 2023

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  For Business owners, we will look at 5 tips for 2023.   So much happens in such a short time it is difficult to have thinking time. Work, family, events, and now Christmas presents and the Christmas dinner. It is hectic. You will relate to this “By working faithfully eight hours a day you

Cash in Your Company

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Cash in Your Company – What to do with it? Have you cash in your company? Do you know what to do with it? What do the directors do with it and how do they make it work for them? The main points we will focus on are   Salary/Dividends Benefits Pension Invest Cash extraction

Ten Last-Minute Tax Tips

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Our focus is to give you ten last-minute tax tips that could save you some money before the Income-tax deadline. The idea for this came from a tax meeting I had with a friend, Dash O’Donnell, who has a local business. Dash has a very good accountant but only found out about her large tax

A Quality Payroll Process

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 A Quality Payroll Process is Vital for Your Business Having a quality payroll process is vital for your business. Getting it wrong can be costly for you and your employees. Getting it right saves you time and money and gives you the headspace to focus on other areas of the business. We will look at

Tax Returns 2021 – Saving Clients Money

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We are filing our client’s tax returns for 2021 so we are busy saving clients money. These are not the typical tax saving tips you will hear about. Let’s call them alternative tax tips. Our advice is “don’t do your own tax return” and this is best summed up by a quote from Albert Einstein.

Revenue Focus Areas for 2023

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We will look at some Revenue focus areas for 2023. The information for this came from a recent joint Revenue and Institute of Tax webinar. This is an opportunity for Revenue to get its message across. “Lads we are going to be looking at these areas, in particular, so don’t say we haven’t warned you”.

5 Tax Benefits for 2022 and 2023

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We will look at 5 Tax benefits for 2022 and 2023 for employees and business owners. Some come into effect now and others will kick in in 2023. Our main focus will be on Increase in the lower rate band Increase in tax credits Rent Tax Credit USC – increase in 2% band Small Benefit