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Irish tax compliance

  • Revenue’s AI Systems Are Making Your Mistakes Easier to Detect

    Revenue’s 2025 Annual Report reveals a rapidly evolving, data-driven compliance environment where AI-assisted analytics, expanding cross-agency data sharing and third-party reporting are becoming increasingly central to how Revenue identifies risk. From payroll and VAT data to DAC7 platform reporting and inter-agency information sharing, Revenue now has access to a far broader picture of taxpayer activity… Read more

  • New Tax Rules for Employee Meals in Ireland

    From October 2025, Revenue recognises two new situations where staff meals won’t trigger a taxable BIK. Learn the rules for meals onsite and working lunches Read more

  • Direct Debit Modernisation and Transition from Annual VAT to Bi-Monthly Returns

    Revenue is phasing out the Fixed Direct Debit (FDD) for VAT as part of its banking modernisation. This marks the end of annual VAT3 returns for affected taxpayers, who will now move back to the standard bi-monthly VAT3 cycle. The first cohort impacted are June FDD year-ends, with returns due 23 September 2025. Read more

  • Your Income Has Been Reported! What DAC7 Means & why the 2025 tax deadline is key

    DAC7 (Directive 2021/514) is part of the EU’s broader tax cooperation strategy. It makes platforms (like Airbnb, Etsy, Vinted, Depop, and Fiverr) report certain income and key details of sellers on the platforms.   Full Revenue guidance: Part 38-03-31 – Guidance on reporting obligations of Platform Operators How Does This Affect Creators, Influencers & Side-Hustlers?… Read more