I had a call with Noel, a potential client, on Wednesday, who I met at a Google seminar in the Theatre Royal. He is a Kilkenny man like me and interested in hurling too so we have a good discussion on the injustice of the Richie Hogan red card! He has a number of rental
We can’t start off without mentioning the hurling. What an amazing weekend of hurling and I was just delighted with the Cats victory over Limerick on Saturday evening. We were hugely outnumbered by confident Limerick supporters. 6 Limerick fans to one Kilkenny fan would be a conservative guess. We hit them hard and early and
We are back to the normality of the working week after such an exciting weekend of sport and music with the Munster and Leinster hurling finals and Glastonbury to calm us all down afterwards. The Cats & Tipp would have started as favourites with Kilkenny on quite familiar territory in Croke Park and Tipp given
We are back with our blog series on business exit planning on what is a gorgeous sunny day out there, even though it is a Monday. Elections are over and while we know most of the people that got in we are still waiting on the results of the European and mayoral one. Never do
This relief applies on the disposal of your business assets once you are over 55 provided certain conditions are met. There are two different reliefs, one on the disposal of business assets outside of your family and the other on the disposal of assets to family members. Despite the name of the relief there is
To continue on with our theme of doing various blogs around business succession I thought it would be useful to look at the main tax head on a disposal or transfer of a business, which is Capital Gains Tax [CGT]. The current rate of CGT is 33% which means that you hand over 1/3 of
Company Valuations This week we are continuing our series of blog posts on business exits and the various aspects of this topic that we have come across and have been involved with over the years. This week we are going to look at Company Valuations and how you would go about putting a value on
H4, the FAI and how this impacts my Company? It has been a crazy few weeks with the drip feeding of revelation after revelation coming from the media in relation to the activities and governance at the FAI over recent years. The latest twist was the filing of a H4 form with the Companies Registration
We are going to run a series of blogs [6 to 8] to cover a lot of the aspects of business exits that we have been involved in over the last few years and try and highlight some of the common themes that keep occurring. When we talk about business exit this could be an
It’s a battle for the ages. Like Ali v Frazier, or Federer v Nadal. Just less sweaty. The modern accountant vs. the traditional accountant. Who wins? Here we make a case for the former. Ding, ding. Round one. The traditional accountant is someone very much set in their ways. They’re not quite blowing the dust
