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Simplifying Group Structures: Group Rationalisation
Article Simplifying Group Structures: Group Rationalisation
Managing compliance across companies is time-consuming and often overlooked. Eliminating dormant companies reduces administrative and audit costs, freeing up finance directors.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 7 min read | 20 Nov 2024
Changes to Company Size Criteria
Tax Changes to Company Size Criteria
Discover changes to company size criteria under new EU regulations. From July 2024, increased thresholds for 'micro,' 'small,' 'medium,' and 'large' companies take effect.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 2 min read | 27 Jun 2024
New mandatory identity verification requirement for directors
Company Secretarial New mandatory identity verification requirement for directors
The Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Act 2021 contains a provision, which requires the directors of Irish companies to provide their Personal Public Service (PPS) numbers on certain documents submitted to the Companies Registration Office (CRO) in order to allow for verification of a director’s identify.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 3 min read | 11 Apr 2023
Strike off - Irish registered companies
Article Strike off - Irish registered companies
A company strike off is a process whereby a company is removed from the Register of Companies and ceases to exist. A company which has been struck off or dissolved can no longer trade, sell assets or make payments.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 6 min read | 04 Jul 2022
Why do you need to have the company registers?
Tax and Legal Why do you need to have the company registers?
Company registers are official books kept by a company relating to legal and statutory matters. They are also referred to as statutory registers, combined registers or company books.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 5 min read | 04 Apr 2022
Changes announced to subsistence allowances in Ireland
Factsheet Changes announced to subsistence allowances in Ireland
The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have announced changes from 1 July 2019 to the standard rates of subsistence allowances in Ireland that apply to the Civil Service.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 01 Aug 2019
Exemption from disclosing your residential address
Briefing Exemption from disclosing your residential address
Under the Companies Act 2014 it is possible for an officer (being a director or secretary) of a company, to apply to be exempt from having their usual residential address appearing on the register, and available to the public for a nominal fee.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 06 Jan 2016
The Companies Act 2014 - LTD or DAC
Briefing The Companies Act 2014 - LTD or DAC
The Companies Act 2014 came into operation on 1st June 2015. From this date there is an eighteen month transition period during which Existing Private Limited Companies (EPCs) will have to make a decision on which of the new entity types they wish to become.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 02 Jul 2015
The Companies Act 2014: Directors’ loans and advances
Briefing The Companies Act 2014: Directors’ loans and advances
In this update on the Companies Act 2014 (the “Act”) we discuss the topical issue of loans/advances between a company and its directors.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 29 Jun 2015
The Companies Act: Companies Limited by Guarantee
Briefing The Companies Act: Companies Limited by Guarantee
The Companies Act 2014 (the “Act”) which consolidates all old legislation into 25 parts and over 1400 sections, was enacted on 23 December 2014 and commenced 1 June 2015. The CLG is a company most commonly used for charities, social clubs and property management.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 17 Jun 2015
The Companies Act 2014: Audit committees
Briefing The Companies Act 2014: Audit committees
Following on from our overview of the Companies Act 2014 (the “Act”), in this publication we set out the new requirements for large companies to form an audit committee.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 06 Jun 2015
The Companies Act 2014: Directors' duties
Briefing The Companies Act 2014: Directors' duties
Under common law directors occupy a fiduciary role in relation to companies. Directors are required to act in good faith in the interests of the company and this duty is owed to the company as a whole rather than to the individual members of the company. The equitable and common law principles relating to directors’ duties are specified and codified in Part 5 of the Companies Act 2014 (hereafter the “Act”) and became effective as of the commencement of the Act on 1 June 2015.
Jillian O'Sullivan
Jillian O'Sullivan
| 22 Apr 2015

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