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Business Consulting
Our Consulting team guarantees quick turnarounds, lower partner-to-staff ratio than most and superior results delivered on a range of services.
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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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Digital Risk
Our Digital Risk team offer advisory and consulting solutions that give our clients peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to cyber attacks.
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Digital Transformation
Our Digital Transformation team work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
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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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Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a goal setting framework that helps teams, individuals and organisations set and track measurable goals.
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People and Change Consulting
Our People & Change Consulting team help clients adapt to the changing nature of the workforce - how they attract, retain, engage, develop, deploy and lead their people.
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Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS)
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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Outsourced Payroll
Our outsourced payroll teams become your dedicated payroll department, aiming to process your payroll in the most cost effective and compliant manner.
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Outsourcing
Grant Thornton's reliable and cost-effective outsourcing services help you streamline your business operations by taking care of your workload.

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Actuarial
Our Actuarial team provides a comprehensive range of services to our insurance clients. From regulatory support for compliance to delivering specialist expertise in insurance & reinsurance.
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Data Analytics
Our team helps to unlock the potential of data analytics within your organisation, allowing you to be more innovative, efficient and customer-centric than ever before.
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Digital and Fintech
Our FinTech team are experts in technology and financial services and have a long track record of helping companies achieve sustained advantage.
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Digital Risk
Our Digital Risk team offer advisory and consulting solutions that give our clients peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to cyber attacks.
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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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Financial Services Consulting
We work closely with clients to understand their strategy and benchmark their performance against the very best international standards.
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FS Business Risk Services
Our FS Business Risk team have real experience of the financial services sector, through working within regulatory bodies or holding leadership positions in Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit functions.
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Grant Thornton Pensioneer Trustees Limited
The Grant Thornton Pensioneer Trustee service can offer business owners, directors and employees the opportunity to manage their own retirement choices with full transparency.
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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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Prudential Risk
Our industry leading Prudential Risk team works with clients on a range of areas including regulatory reporting, regulatory authorisations, on-site investigations and data quality assurance.
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Quantitative Risk
Our Quantitative Risk team members bring a wide range of experience with many of them having backgrounds in banking, investment markets, regulation, professional practice, and academia.
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Sustainability desk
We recognise that businesses are operating at different levels of maturity when it comes to sustainability, and pride ourselves on working with our clients to develop bespoke solutions to their needs.
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Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS)
Our Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS) team designs and implements creative solutions for organisations expanding into new markets or undertaking functional financial transformations.

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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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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 Services
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.
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VAT
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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To form a VAT group, an application must be made to Revenue and approval is at the discretion of the Revenue.
All group members must be established in Ireland and at least one member must be a VAT registered entity. Once a VAT group is formed, one of the persons in the group becomes the “group remitter”. This is the sole person within the group that bears responsibility for submitting a single bi-monthly VAT return on behalf of the group. The entire group is considered a single VAT registered body and each member is jointly and severally liable for the group’s VAT liabilities and ensuring that all legislative requirements are complied with. Intra-group transactions are ignored for VAT purposes (subject to some small exceptions).
Interestingly, all group members must continue to issue invoices for sales via their own names and VAT numbers despite supplies being deemed to have been made by the group as a single person.
The remitter may file Intrastat returns for some or all group members. However, VIES returns must be filed under the members’ individual VAT numbers. Transactions between members are ignored for the purposes of VIES and Intrastat.
In order for an application to be successful, the applicants must prove to Revenue that they are bound by financial, economic and organisational links and that a VAT group would be necessary or appropriate for the efficient and effective administration of tax. All of these conditions must be met.
- Financial link: Demonstrated by common control (i.e. the holding of 50% or more of the issued share capital or voting rights or the power to appoint 50% of more of the board of directors).
- Economic link: An economic link is deemed to exist if any of the following conditions are met.
- The principal activity of the group members is of the same nature, or
- The activities of the group members are complementary or interdependent, or
- One member of the group carries out activities which are wholly or substantially to the benefit of the other members.
- Organisational link: Different forms of organisational links may be recognised. If there is a shared, or partially shared, management or corporate structure an organisational link will be deemed to exist.
Effective date of VAT group registrations
Revenue recently issued some guidance to clarify the effective date of VAT group registrations. Where an application has been made to form a VAT group and it has been successful, Revenue will issue a letter to each member specifying the effective start date of the group. This will not be any earlier than the first day of the VAT period where the application was made.
We have assisted many groups to establish VAT groups which has greatly reduced the administrative burden and costs associated with VAT compliance. Please make contact with us if you would like to discuss if a VAT group is suitable for your business needs.