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Employment Tax Updates covering: Enhanced Reporting Requirements (ERR), Small Benefit Exemption, Shares Options – Revenue’s Compliance Focus and PAYE Revenue Audits

Finance Act 2022 introduced the requirement for employers to notify Revenue of certain payments made to employees known as ‘reportable benefits’. The introduction of this reporting requirement is subject to a commencement order; however, the target implementation date is 1 January 2024.

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The introduction of Pillar Two brings unprecedented changes to the international tax landscape, the likes of which haven’t been seen for decades. The rules will create a fundamental shift in the way certain groups are taxed as well as an additional global compliance and reporting obligation for those within scope of the rules.

The world of work is evolving quickly; finance departments are increasingly facing competing priorities; and the roles of finance leaders are expanding rapidly.

he Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will replace the NFRD and requires entities in scope to include non-financial reporting disclosures across Environmental, Social and Governance topics within their annual management report covering both financial impacts and impacts on people and the environment.

In March 2023, the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) outlined their intention to undertake a review of consumer protection risks in insurance firms.

Counterparty credit risk was identified as a supervisory priority by the ECB for 2022 - 2024, as banks had been increasingly offering capital market services to riskier, leveraged and less transparent counterparties, in particular with non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs), at a time when the interest rate environment was low.

Over the past few weeks, the Irish Revenue Commissioners (‘Revenue’) has sent in excess of 20,000 letters to non-resident landlords (‘NRL’) and their collection agents, informing them of the upcoming changes to the administration of withholding tax for NRLs. In these letters, Revenue has also detailed the information that landlords will be required to provide to their tenants or collection agents.

In 2017, the Central Bank introduced client asset regulations into the investment firm space for the first time. Following an industry consultation last year, the Central Bank updated the existing client assets regulatory regime, resulting in increased requirements for MiFID firms as well as new requirements for credit institutions executing MiFID business (and only in relation to MiFID business).

During 2022, the Revenue Commissioners launched a share-based remuneration project. Revenue analysed employer annual share reporting forms (e.g. Form RSS1) against available data such as personal tax returns. They identified discrepancies such as employees under-declaring share option tax and underpaying Capital Gains Tax (CGT).

Findings from the CBI’s thematic assessment across a sample of MiFID firms, considering the approach taken by Boards and Senior Management, to foster and embed an effective conduct-focused culture.