Press Release World Tax, the International Tax Review’s directory of leading tax advisory practices in all major jurisdictions around the world, has just announced firms for its 2018 edition. Baker Tilly Hughes Blake are delighted to be recognised as a recommended firm in Ireland. The rankings usually include a dozen firms, mainly made up of […]
Budget 2018 was the first Budget for both Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Finance Minister Paschal Donohue. Whereas the various social and property spending announcements are broadly welcome, there was very little to incentivise entrepreneurs. Fergus Finlay put it well when he said that the Budget had “nothing not to welcome.” It says something, however, when […]
In April, President Trump set out his proposal for tax reform which included significant tax cuts. For businesses the plan includes: Reducing the federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 15%. (State taxes of up to 5% will continue to also apply). A one-time tax on all profits held offshore by US companies and their […]
Zero hour contracts Many people working in the retail, hospitality, education and health sectors are doing so under zero hour contracts, low-hour, ‘if and when’ and banded hours employment deals. In some situations of course these conditions are necessary and even suit some workers, but since the recession the trend has grown and the sheer […]
Com-Plas Packaging, successfully ousted a receiver installed by a Goldman Sachs last week and convinced the High Court the business could be saved by examinership with the court appointing Dessie Morrow examiner and 100 days to restructure the company’s finances. Read the full article from the Sunday Business Post here…
Hard as it may be for those still experiencing recession related problems to believe, Ireland’s economy is the strongest growing in the EU. Our GDP grew by just over 5% in 2016 compared to the EU overall which had growth of just under 2%. Projections from the Central Bank and the ESRI are for further […]
The Goodbody 2016 EIIS Fund, managed by Baker Tilly Hughes Blake, has announced that it has raised €10m in December 2016 and is now looking for opportunities to invest in Irish SMEs over the coming months. “We are delighted to have raised €10 million,” said Stephen McGivern, Partner at Baker Tilly Hughes Blake. “We are […]
What’s the latest Revenue campaign? Revenue wrote to almost 500,000 tax payers recently alerting them to a new campaign and inviting them to consider their tax returns and consider whether they needed to make a disclosure. This correspondence is part of Revenue’s campaign to alert taxpayers to the fact that it will not be possible […]
International Women’s Day 2017 dawned in Ireland in the shadow of the ongoing harrowing discoveries from the former mother and baby home in Tuam and elsewhere, stark reminders of how Irish society treated women in the not so distant past. The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day was “be bold for change” and called […]
In publishing its preliminary results for 2016 yesterday, KBC Bank Ireland confirmed that it is staying here and will be a force to be reckoned with in terms of future banking in Ireland. Its announcement at the beginning of 2016 that it was going to conduct a “strategic review” of its Irish operation fuelled speculation […]
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