Institute News

Last Friday, almost 1,000 guests attended our flagship event, the Annual Dinner, in the Clayton Hotel Burlington Road. Guest of honour, the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe T.D., addressed the audience and outlined the Government’s efforts in preparing for Brexit, including the introduction of postponed accounting for VAT purposes. Institute President Marie Bradley also addressed key issues in her speech, such as protecting our exports […]

Today, the Institute’s Communications Director, Olivia Buckley and Director of Tax Policy & Representations, Anne Gunnell appeared before the Oireachtas Budgetary Oversight Committee to outline the Institute’s tax policy recommendations for Budget 2019. The Institute highlighted Ireland’s high CGT rate, Revised Entrepreneur Relief limitations, the need for an effective EII scheme and a workable KEEP scheme, the outsourcing restrictions imposed on the R&D tax credit and the insufficient time to […]

The Institute along with ten other professional bodies recently published a 76-page report titled Building Ireland’s Future – The Role of the Professions. The report features newly commissioned research from the professional bodies that demonstrates the very strong sentiment among multinational companies towards professional qualifications and standards. A survey of senior executives at 50 multinational companies in Ireland, undertaken by Behaviour & Attitudes from 26 April to 9 May 2018, […]

Press release Multinationals says professional skills and expertise the single most important factor when choosing a professional service provider in Ireland   88% say professional qualifications are important in inspiring trust and confidence when recruiting staff in Ireland A survey of 50 multinational companies, carried out by Behaviour & Attitudes found overwhelming support for Ireland’s professional qualifications and standards. Professional skills and expertise emerged as the single most important factor for […]

Irish Tax Institute Annual Dinner The Clayton Hotel Friday 23 February 2018   The breadth of international tax proposals and legislation has never been as far reaching. The pace with which they are being introduced has never been as rapid. On the international tax policy side, 2018 will be a very significant year. There will emerge new proposals to tax the digital economy or digital transactions, further implementation of BEPS, the unfolding of […]

The Institute appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on ‘The Cost of Doing Business’