Consider a Professional Tax Qualification for Summer 2025
The Institute’s summer 2025 online courses – Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and Tax Technician – are open for registration. Tax technical knowledge that a professional tax qualification provides is highly sought after. On our programmes, you will acquire technical tax knowledge through a comprehensive library of recorded lectures, self-study materials, live online sessions delivered by expert lecturers and tax advisers, and a student discussion forum. Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) – […]
Revenue publishes details of new agent e-linking process
Revenue recently published details of a new digital client/agent linking approval process, called e-linking, that will come into operation on 25 March 2025. The new process does not affect existing agent-links. It will apply when requesting to agent-link to a new client or to additional tax heads for existing clients of the following taxpayers: Taxpayers that have an active ROS digital certificate E-linking will replace the current paper-based Agent-Link Notification […]
Applications for the Third-Level Scholarship are Open
The Irish Tax Institute’s Third-Level Scholarship is open for applicants until 14 April 2025. The Scholarship is for Leaving Cert students interested in tax advisory as a career and need financial support to progress through college. It offers the successful applicant: financial assistance of €5,000 per academic year for third-level living expenses and costs, a place on the Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) programme after their degree, mentoring and support from the Irish […]
Annual Dinner 2025
On the last evening of February 2025, we welcomed nearly 1,000 guests to the Clayton Hotel, Burlington Road for Annual Dinner 2025. Guests from our member firms, the Oireachtas, Government departments, Revenue, State bodies, academia and the media dressed in black tie to engage in conversation over dinner. Our President, Aoife Lavan, is a proud Mayo local. The backdrop for the night made her feel at home looking at Croagh […]
Ireland must ‘prepare for the worst’ in current uncertain geo-political environment
The President of the Irish Tax Institute says that Ireland must “prepare for the worst” as the threat of a global tax and trade war increases following the election of Donald Trump as US president. Speaking at the Institute’s Annual Dinner on Friday 28 February, Aoife Lavan said that any hope that the OECD’s global tax agreement would bring stability to international tax rules was dashed when US President Trump […]
Fantasy Budget 2025 Winners
Our annual Fantasy Budget competition proved as popular as ever with over 600 students entering. In teams of 3 – 4, students were asked to think like the Minister for Finance and critically analyse three key measures impacting individuals, Irish businesses, and foreign investment in Ireland. Finishing their submission, they propose their own Budget measure. After a difficult process and much deliberation, our esteemed judges, Jim Power and Brendan Keenan, […]