• Pre-Revenue audit check
• Preparation of voluntary disclosures
• Negotiating audit settlement to minimise potential penalties
• Interact with the Revenue Commissioners on client’s behalf
• Expediting repayment claims
• Clarifying technical tax points
• Appealing points of dispute and representing clients at Appeal Hearings
• Timely registration for VAT and other taxes
• Advice on how to maintain VAT records
• Industry focused business reviews and VAT planning
• Obtaining VAT rulings
• Advice on the VAT implications of transactions

Pensions are one of the few remaining tax shelter options for the Personal and Corporate tax payer. While Cogent Taxation Group is not a pension broker we work in conjunction with our client’s pension advisors on the following;

• Review of pension options in conjunction with pension advisers
• Assessing optimal pension payment structure for clients
• Comparison of pension schemes e.g. occupational pension schemes, self administered pension schemes, pension backed mortgages, PRSAs and other private pensions
• Negotiating debt funding in pensions structures to allow clients to maximise pension benefits in the future within Revenue rules
• Advice on the most appropriate time to draw down pension funds taking into account other taxable income streams.

Our personal tax specialists provide the following services;

• Completion of annual tax returns
• Calculation of tax liability
• Pension planning
• Wealth preservation and maximisation

CGT may arise if you dispose of or transfer an asset.  We provide the following services:

• Preparing Capital Gains Tax computations in relation to disposals of assets
• Advising on payment dates
• Advising on various reliefs available and maximising the availability of those reliefs
• Planning in advance of disposals to maximise the reliefs available

• Completion of annual tax returns, advice on tax payments and tax shelters
• Advising on Close Company tax issues

We advise on the stamp duty implications of various transfers including property transfers.