Member News
We keep our members directly informed with regular bulletins on the major issues in tax policy and administration and how the Institute engages with stakeholders and represents its members’ interests. This section provides highlights from these updates.
Expansion of COVID-19 Business Supports Announced on 21 December 2021
Today, Tuesday, 21 December, the Government announced changes to three COVID-19 business supports: the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS), the Covid Restriction Support Scheme (CRSS) and the Debt Warehousing Scheme to support hospitality and indoor entertainment which have been impacted by the latest public health restrictions that came into effect from 20 December 2021 and are due to run until 31 January 2022. Following the Government’s announcement, Revenue confirmed in […]
Revenue Clarification on Completing the EWSS Eligibility Review Form
10 August 2021 The EWSS Eligibility Review Form (ERF) for June and July 2021 are due for submission by this Sunday, 15 August. Revenue has contacted the Institute to draw members’ attention to matters which have arisen when completing the ERF. We outline Revenue’s clarifications for businesses which commence between 1 January and 31 October 2019, employers with more than one business type, ‘new business’ and Revenue’s position on outstanding […]
EWSS Eligibility Review Form Update
Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021 extended the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme (EWSS) to 31 December 2021. It also changed the reference periods for determining eligibility for EWSS for pay dates from 1 July to 31 December 2021. At the same time, Revenue introduced a new requirement for employers to submit a monthly Eligibility Review Form (ERF) on ROS. This comprises the data employers use in their monthly rolling […]
Tax Talk Episode 4: Taxpayers’ Rights
The protection of taxpayers’ rights is central to the purpose of the Institute – the need to ensure an appropriate balance between their rights and obligations has long been a focus of our deliberations. Two years ago, the Institute set up a Working Group to examine how this might best be achieved. Given our work on this issue, we warmly welcomed the recently launched European Commission initiative on Taxpayers’ Rights, […]
Women in Tax on International Women’s Day
Just over half of the Irish Tax Institute’s members are women. To mark International Women’s Day, we spoke to a cross-section of women in tax. They reflected on their working lives and their experiences working in tax. We also got insight from Paul Vance, Head of Resourcing at KPMG, to see if the pipeline and working environment allow for women to succeed. In the first of three videos, we look […]