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Business Risk Services
Our Business Risk Services team deliver practical and pragmatic solutions that support clients in growing and protecting the inherent value of their businesses.
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Deal Advisory
Our experienced Deal Advisory team has provided a range of transaction, valuation, deal advisory and restructuring services to clients for the past two decades.
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Forensic Accounting
Our Forensic and Investigation Services team have targeted solutions to solve difficult challenges - making the difference between finding the truth or being left in the dark.
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Our FAAS team designs and implements creative solutions for organisations expanding into new markets or undertaking functional financial transformations.
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Restructuring
Grant Thornton is Ireland’s leading provider of insolvency and corporate recovery solutions.
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Risk Advisory
Our Risk Advisory team delivers innovative solutions and strategic insights for the Financial Services sector, addressing disruptive forces, regulatory changes, and emerging trends to enhance risk management and foster competitive advantage.
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Sustainability Advisory
Our Sustainability Advisory team works with clients to accelerate their sustainability journey through innovative and pragmatic solutions.
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Corporate Accounting and Outsourcing
At Grant Thornton we have extensive knowledge and experience in providing tailored solutions to our clients, whether on a short-term or long-term basis.
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Financial Services Audit
Our Financial Services Audit team offers expertise and knowledge along with a horizontal approach to solving clients’ problems and queries.
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Global Statutory Audit
Our Global Statutory Audit team ensures your statutory audit process follows a well-defined project plan, with no surprises, to maintain compliance across multiple jurisdictions. We invest time to understand your finance function and develop bespoke solutions built on the premise of central effort to remove duplication.
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Pension Audit
The Grant Thornton Pension Audit team has vast experience in managing schemes and preparing annual reports on them for clients.
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Corporate Tax
Our Corporate Tax team is made up of more than 40 highly experienced senior partners and directors who work directly with a wide range of domestic and international clients; covering Corporation Tax, Company Secretarial, Employer Solutions, Global Mobility and Tax Incentives.
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Financial Services Tax
The Grant Thornton team is made up of experts who are fully up to date in terms of changing and evolving tax legislation. This is combined with industry expertise and an in-depth knowledge of the evolving financial services regulatory landscape.
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Indirect Tax Advisory & Compliance
Grant Thornton’s team of indirect tax specialists helps a range of clients across a variety of sectors including pharmaceuticals, financial services, construction and property and food to navigate these complexities.
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International Tax
We develop close relationships with clients in order to gain a deep understanding of their businesses to ensure they make the right operational decisions. The wrong decision on how a company sells into a new market or establishes a new subsidiary can have major tax implications.
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Private Client
Grant Thornton’s Private Client Services team can advise you on all areas of financial, pension, investment, succession and inheritance planning. We understand that each individual’s circumstances are different to the next and we tailor our services to suit your specific needs.
In order to set up a charitable trust in Ireland, the organisation has to operate in Ireland (either as a company limited by guarantee (CLG), or other company types, associations or trusts). The charitable trust must have exclusively charitable purposes, which is examined on a case by case basis by the Charities Regulatory Authority (CRA) which was set up in 2014 to regulate Charities in Ireland. Charitable purposes are as follows:
- the prevention or relief of poverty or economic hardship;
- the advancement of education;
- the advancement of religion; and
- any other purpose that is of benefit to the community. Examples include the advancement of community welfare, including the relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health or disability or the promotion of health inter alia.
Furthermore, charities cannot be an excluded body, examples of which are bodies that promote activities that are unlawful, contrary to public morality, contrary to public policy or in support of terrorism or terrorist activities.
An application must be made online to the Charities Regulator using “MyAccount” on www.charitiesregulator.ie/. Charity Trustees (the people who control and are legally responsible for the management of a charity) must comply with their organisation’s governing document (constitution, deed of trust, rule book, annual report and accounts) which provides the basis for everything their organisation does and how it does it as per the rules set out in the Charities Act 2009.
If the Charities Regulatory Authority grants charitable status, then the organisation can apply for a charitable tax exemption from Revenue using a Form CHY1 along with the latest financial accounts or details of financial plans, a statement of activities and future plans along with a copy of the charity’s constitution. This means that the organisation will be exempt from paying income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, stamp duty, dividend withholding tax, capital acquisitions tax and deposit interest retention tax. However, if the charity has employees it will have pay Income Tax under the PAYE system. The exemption does not apply to VAT either.