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Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Guidance on the Key Employee Engagement Programme (KEEP) scheme to be updated to confirm that relevant limits apply only at the time of option grant.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Requested Revenue to design a relevant tax return for Investment Limited Partnerships (ILP) to complete and file.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Requested Revenue to clarify the meaning of “associated entities” in the context of partnerships and the Outbound Payment Defensive Measures. We raised a point in how the definition is discussed differently in other guidance materials.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Requested confirmation from Revenue that Directors emoluments paid after the end of the year could be included in an amended payroll submission for the final month of the previous year.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Requested a legislative change to allow companies to opt out of the Knowledge Development Box regime. In the absence of this change, we requested that guidance is updated to allow companies to submit a nil claim on the Corporation Tax return where a company chooses not to make a claim.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Requested that the Case 1 carve-out included in some of the Tax and Duty Manuals on the tax treatment of stock lending/Sale and Repurchase (repo) Transactions could also be extended to Section 110 companies.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Feedback provided on various sections of Finance Bill 2025.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Responded to Joint Oireachtas Committee consultation on Finance (Tax Appeals and Fiscal Responsibility) Bill 2024.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Simon Harris', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Requested Revenue to confirm if Capital Acquisitions Tax Business Relief applies where shares are transferred in holding company and land is in trading company.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] October session of the Business Tax Stakeholder Forum convened by the Department of Finance.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Sinead Ryan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
January–April
[Taxation] Budget 2025
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
January–April
[Taxation] Ireland's taxation policy.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Pearse Doherty', 'role': 'TD (Dáil Éireann, the Oireachtas)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
January–April
[Taxation] Examination of the Standard Fund Threshold regime.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
January–April
[Taxation] Response to the public consultation of the taxation of share based remuneration.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Michael McGrath', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
January–April
[Taxation] Response to the public consultation on Modernising Ireland’s administration of Value-Added Tax (VAT).
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Niall Cody', 'role': 'Chairman (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
January–April
[Taxation] Tax refunds to agent mandated by taxpayer.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Joe Howley', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
January–April
[Taxation] Response to draft guidance on employment classification.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Niall Cody', 'role': 'Chairman (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
January–April
[Taxation] Defensive measures on outbound payments.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jeanette Doonan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
January–April
[Taxation] EU Minimum Taxation Directive – Guidance Notes
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jeanette Doonan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
May–August
[Taxation] Highlighting procedural issues arising from legislation relating to the reliefs for investment in corporate trades contained in Part 16 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 and in particular the Employment Investment Incentive Scheme.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
May–August
[Taxation] CCAB-I Pre-Budget 2025 Submission.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
May–August
[Taxation] CCAB-I response to Feedback Statement: Strawman Proposal for a participation exemption for foreign dividends.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
May–August
[Taxation] CCAB-I response to Second Feedback Statement on Dividend Participation Exemption.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
May–August
[Taxation] Feedback on Revenue guidance on the implementation and administration of Pillar Two rules.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jeanette Doonan', 'role': 'Assistant Secretaries or Equivalent Grades (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
May–August
[Taxation] Meeting with the Minister for Finance to discuss CCAB-I's Pre-Budget 2025 Submission.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
May–August
[Taxation] At the Tax Administration Liaison Committee (TALC) Indirect Taxes Sub-committee, we made proposals in relation to the VAT56A application procedure.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Deirdre Hanlon', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Feedback provided to the Department of Finance on tax simplification.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Feedback provided to the Department of Finance on participation exemption for foreign dividends.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Jack Chambers', 'role': 'Minister (Department of Finance)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Representations regarding the clawback of capital gains tax relief on transfer of business or farm to a child.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland
September–December
[Taxation] Representations regarding the proposed active farmer requirement for the disponer in order for the beneficiary to claim capital acquisitions tax agricultural property relief.
Public Officials Lobbied
{'name': 'Tom James', 'role': 'Assistant Secretary (The Office of the Revenue Commissioners)'}
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