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Why Should You Attend This CPD Course?

This seminar is designed to provide professional advisors with up to one day of a number of current taxation topics.

Who Should Attend?

• Practising Accountants who are providing taxation advice to SME clients
• Accountants in Business who have an interest in the taxation areas covered

What Will Be Covered?

Session 1

• Succession Planning
  • Tax effects of transferring businesses
  • Use of tax reliefs to mitigate taxes on transfer
  • Pre-transfer tax planning
  • Pitfalls to be avoided
  • Recent tax changes
  • Non-tax issues

Transferring the family business is an important event in the life cycle of a business and quite apart the taxation issues that need to be considered there are other issues that need to be addressed in a timely manner in order to ensure the successful transition from one generation to the next. This seminar will deliver practical advice based on real life case studies and will focus on the key issues, including the recent tax changes, that need to be examined prior to transferring the business.

Session 2

• Research & Development Tax Credits
  • Identification of qualifying activities & expenditures
  • Preparing a valid claim
  • Use of tax credits
  • Recent tax changes

The Irish tax legislation provides a useful and generous tax credit for companies that engage in qualifying research and development activities. These tax credits can be used to aid a company’s cash flow and reduce the cost of employing staff engaged in the research and development process. This seminar will focus on the key practical items that need to be borne in mind in order to prepare a qualifying claim for the credit and ensure that it withstands examination from the Revenue Commissioners.

Session 3
Mandatory Disclosure Update

Session 4
Tax Appeals – Recent Decisions and the Options for Representing your Clients

What You Will Walk Away With?

Delegates will receive slide sets and back up notes in word document format, with case study examples, checklists and other practical material.

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