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Full coverage: vat

Department of Agriculture faces Revenue scrutiny of recent tax liability

The tax authority is reviewing the department's Vat and PAYE liabilities from 2021 to 2024 after raising issues during audits. A Vat liability for 2022 was paid but an overall settlement figure is not yet landed on.

Niall Sargent
8th Dec, 2025 - 2 min read

Why a Galway coach firm missed out on a €1m Vat refund

The business behind the GoBus intercity service from Galway to Dublin city and the airport challenged the Revenue's refusal to recognise its right to a Vat rebate as a tourist operator.

Francesca Comyn
28th Oct, 2025 - 4 min read

Revenue scrambled to strengthen cross-border Vat data as EU transfers hit €11bn

As more multinationals choose Ireland to centralise European Vat payments, discrepancies held up the release of corresponding statistics for months.

Thomas Hubert
5th Jun, 2025 - 6 min read

A colourful brewery and a neighbourhood restaurant are the latest to seek help

Hopfully Brewing Co and the company behind the Urban 8 restaurant have both appointed process advisors under the Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process.

Alice Chambers
14th Mar, 2025 - 3 min read

Memories are short, the political time horizon even shorter, and sovereign debt refinancings will begin shortly

A sane and fiscally sustainable economic policy is a bulwark for the small business sector in Ireland, but a bespoke policy, made-to-measure for any faltering sector, is delusional.  

Colm McCarthy
21st Nov, 2024 - 5 min read

Helping the hospitality sector to help itself: Rewinding the week that was

The hospitality sector says the issue is about margin, not customers. But with the government's decision not to reduce the Vat rate for the besieged sector, what other options are on the menu?

Ian Kehoe
20th Oct, 2024 - 5 min read

“Busy fools”: restaurant, café and pub owners busier than ever, yet never closer to the edge

Disappointed by Budget 2025, hundreds in the hospitality industry protested in Dublin this Tuesday to make their voices heard ahead of the expected election. They say they're at breaking point.

Alice Chambers
15th Oct, 2024 - 5 min read

Controlling the controllables: Dalata’s Dermot Crowley on share buybacks and cost containment

To maintain Ireland’s tourism offering, Dalata CEO Dermot Crowley says that the reduced Vat rate should be reintroduced for restaurants.

Ian Kehoe
4th Sep, 2024 - 4 min read

“If we hadn’t got migration, let’s be factually correct, our economy would collapse”

New Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke defends cost-busting measures for SMEs and promises more in the budget – but he pits a cut in the hospitality Vat rate against income tax breaks for middle earners.

Thomas Hubert
30th May, 2024 - 10 min read

Vetting the house: Irish casinos and the tax on black

A new determination from the Tax Appeals Commission has given fresh clarity to members only gambling clubs over their tax liabilities on poker, blackjack, and other games of chance.

Rosanna Cooney
12th Jan, 2023 - 4 min read
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