Author Archives: Colin Comerford

Landlords Tax Changes in 2023

Beautiful cottage

Landlords Tax Changes in 2023 We will look at Landlords tax changes in 2023. While the focus of this is to look at changes, we will also look at some planning tips. The main areas to focus on are Pre-letting expenditure Retrofitting Rent tax credit Planning Tips   The changes came in from the 1st

Why Outsource your Bookkeeping

Time for change

Happy New Year to all our readers. We will look at the reasons why you should outsource your bookkeeping. The plan is to compare what your bookkeeping looks like now to what it could look like. Some people are not into the numbers. Our client once told us that he’d rather pick potatoes for a

Business Owners – 5 Tips for 2023

2023

  For Business owners, we will look at 5 tips for 2023.   So much happens in such a short time it is difficult to have thinking time. Work, family, events, and now Christmas presents and the Christmas dinner. It is hectic. You will relate to this “By working faithfully eight hours a day you

Cash in Your Company

Plan for success

Cash in Your Company – What to do with it? Have you cash in your company? Do you know what to do with it? What do the directors do with it and how do they make it work for them? The main points we will focus on are   Salary/Dividends Benefits Pension Invest Cash extraction

Transferring your Business to a Company

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We will look at the tax considerations of transferring your business to a company. The main points we will cover are Goodwill. Is there any? Sell your business for shares Sell your business for cash Potential Tax reliefs Other considerations Summary Goodwill. Is there any? Goodwill. You sell your business to a third party and

Creating a Valuable Business

Apple

Creating a valuable business to sell or pass on to the next generation. This was the theme for an early morning event with Waterford Chamber and PWC. Numbers were low and given the weather, it was a wonder anyone was there at all. Those of us who were got great benefit from the presentation by

Debt Warehousing Payment Plan

Plan

Debt Warehousing Payment Plan We will look at a debt warehousing payment plan. As a quick recap, Debt warehousing came into play to enable a business to warehouse its tax debts. Revenue love their acronyms and would call this the DWPP. Sounds like a political party! For most businesses period 2 ends on the 31st

Ten Last-Minute Tax Tips

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Our focus is to give you ten last-minute tax tips that could save you some money before the Income-tax deadline. The idea for this came from a tax meeting I had with a friend, Dash O’Donnell, who has a local business. Dash has a very good accountant but only found out about her large tax

A Quality Payroll Process

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 A Quality Payroll Process is Vital for Your Business Having a quality payroll process is vital for your business. Getting it wrong can be costly for you and your employees. Getting it right saves you time and money and gives you the headspace to focus on other areas of the business. We will look at

Tax Returns 2021 – Saving Clients Money

Saving money

We are filing our client’s tax returns for 2021 so we are busy saving clients money. These are not the typical tax saving tips you will hear about. Let’s call them alternative tax tips. Our advice is “don’t do your own tax return” and this is best summed up by a quote from Albert Einstein.