You set up a limited company, it ran its course, and now it sits there generating filing deadlines and accountancy fees for no good reason. Plenty of Irish limited companies end up in exactly this spot. If the company is clean, you can close it yourself through a...
The first month of self-employment has a strange moment in it. An invoice gets paid, the money lands, and then nothing else happens. No payslip, no payday, no net wage arriving like clockwork. After years on PAYE, the silence throws people. The short answer: a sole...
You’re about to invoice your first client, the bank wants to know your “business status”, and Revenue’s forms keep asking whether you’re a sole trader. Your accountant friend says you’re “self-employed”. Have you...
You've picked a name. The domain is in your basket and the logo brief is half written. Then the Companies Registration Office bounces your application because a company three counties away registered something similar back in 2011. It happens more often than...
You need a tax number before you can invoice properly, reclaim VAT, or file a return. The catch? Revenue issues different numbers depending on whether you’re trading as an individual or through a company, and plenty of new business owners pick the wrong form....