Certificate in Domestic Corporate Tax for CTAs

Delivered online, this programme has two options:

• CPD Option at €995 to gain CPD hours only, no certificate will be awarded, and
• Certificate Option at €1,150 to obtain a certificate, upon successful completion of the assignment
  • Flexible payment options – timing and instalments into 2025*
  • Allocate to 2024 or 2025 CPD hours, or split
    *Please contact cpd@taxinstitute.ie to explore options
• If you wish to book this, please visit our store page.

Expert Tutors include:

Yvonne Diamond is a Tax Director in the Financial Services Tax team in BDO, advising clients in all sub-sectors of financial services. With almost 15 years of experience in practice, Yvonne provides support to clients with tax structuring, significant investments and exits, tax compliance and general tax advisory matters. Demonstrating the importance of thought leadership is a key focus for Yvonne, as she is a regular contributor to the Tax Monitor in Finance Dublin. She has also authored articles for the Irish Tax Review, as well as regularly producing technical tax material for the BDO website. She is a member of the BDO Tax Library team and sits on the BDO Tax Department Training Committee. Yvonne is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and a Chartered Accountant.

Thomas Donohoe is a Director in the International Tax team in Grant Thornton Ireland. He previously worked for Big Four and Top Ten firms and has over 14 years’ experience specialising in international corporation tax. He specialises in providing a wide range of corporate tax compliance and consultancy services for international organisations and medium/large domestic groups including corporate restructurings, acquisitions and disposals, Revenue audits and investigations, international structuring and due diligence assignments. He also has experience in various other tax matters including personal tax matters, VAT on property issues and insolvency and receivership matters. Thomas is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and a Chartered Accountant. 

Kevin Donovan is a Senior Tax Manager in Baker Tilly. His expertise lies in corporate tax advisory services for both domestic and international clients. Kevin excels in guiding the expansion of Irish domestic operations and structuring Irish operations for international entities across a variety of industries. He also specializes in advising on Relevant Contracts Tax (RCT) issues for clients in the construction sector, focusing particularly on the complexities faced by international companies setting up construction and related operations in Ireland. Kevin is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA).

Kim Doyle is a Director with the Tax Policy and Technical Services team in Deloitte. She works closely with Deloitte’s client teams to assist with complex tax technical issues and tax legislation interpretation. Kim also collaborates with the specialist teams in developing the firm’s position on tax policy. Kim has over 15 years’ experience in a tax policy and tax technical role, collaborating with client teams in delivering a first-class service. She is a former tax lecturer for over a decade for professional tax and accountancy qualifications and has developed educational programmes and courses on tax. Kim was editor of the Chartered Accountants Ireland consolidated tax legislation series and she was technical editor on tax manuals and student texts for more than 10 years. She contributes articles to professional publications, writes and speaks extensively on tax matters. Kim is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA). 

James Henry is a Senior Manager in EY’s Private Client Tax and Law team, providing bespoke tax advice to high-net-worth individuals (HNWI) and families to ensures the optimal transition of wealth to future generations, minimising tax liabilities while safeguarding family legacies. Additionally, James advices private companies—ranging from family-owned businesses to owner-managed enterprises—on a variety of tax and governance matters; including corporate reorganisations, debt restructuring, governance frameworks and the design and implementation of business succession/exit strategies. James is a 
Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA), Associate of Chartered Accountants Ireland (ACA) and Affiliate of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Patrick Lawless is a Tax Director in PwC’s Tax Solutions Centre (TSC), PwC Ireland’s centre of excellence in relation to all tax technical matters arising within the firm and the central repository for tax knowledge. Patrick has been working with PwC since June 2017 and works closely with client engagement teams to provide solutions to clients on material tax issues and to assist in structuring significant transactions. His primary focus is on tax technical and policy matters and he regularly contributes to public consultations on legislative matters. Patrick is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and has a Commerce degree from NUI Galway.

Ronan Moore is a director in KPMG’s R&D Incentives Practice assisting companies with preparing R&D tax credit and Knowledge Development Box claims. He liaises with clients to establish their entitlement to claim R&D incentives, determine qualifying R&D expenditure, and advise them on tax technical and financial matters. Ronan has assisted small & medium enterprises as well as some of the largest multinational companies operating in Ireland across a wide range of industries, in preparing R&D claims. Ronan has also been involved in preparing companies for Revenue audits and enquiries, assisting companies through the process by regularly liaising with Revenue. Ronan is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA).

Michael O’Scathaill is a Director in the Tax Department of Crowe Ireland. Michael works with a range of clients from a variety of sectors including food & beverage, construction, waste management and insurance services, advising them on compliance and tax planning across the various tax-heads. Among the areas in which he specialises are corporate structures and restructuring, raising finance tax-efficiently including through use of EIIS, structuring of complex property transactions for developers and investors, and buying and selling of businesses. He regularly speaks to industry representative bodies and to participants on Enterprise Ireland programmes. Michael is a fellow of Chartered Accounts Ireland and a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA).