Top tips for hosting an effective webinar. Webinars have quickly become a key marketing and customer communication tool for many businesses. Whether you want to update your clients on new industry developments or host online tutorials on how to get the most out of your products / services, more people than ever before are choosing […]

How do you create a resilient supply chain in uncertain times? Before the current Covid-19 crisis, for most businesses, sourcing supplies was all about pricing, timing and making savings where possible. Now that supply chains have become disrupted, the priority is to keep operations online by making sure those supply chains keep flowing. Volatility wreaks […]

The pandemic has forced businesses to adopt remote working across the board. Will employees want to continue working from home post-Covid-19? In the past 10 years or so, the number of people working remotely has increased significantly. Major contributors to this shift include technology-related advancements, cultural changes to work-life integration and family commitments. The Covid-19 […]

Revenue suspended debt collection and the charging of interest on late payment for the January/February and March/April VAT periods and February, March and April PAYE (Employer) liabilities. These arrangements are further extended to include May/June VAT and May and June PAYE (Employer) liabilities. For the purposes of clarity, PAYE (Employer) liabilities include income tax, universal […]

Whatever the size of your business, now is a really good time to evaluate your approach to marketing.  We are living in unprecedented times and all businesses need to make sure they are up with and preferably, ahead of the competition. Many businesses put marketing barriers up: I don’t have time, customer service comes first, […]

The scale of the pandemic was unexpected and the last two months have been difficult for many and tragic for some. The situation we face is one we cannot change. We must accept that, and it is the same for everyone – we know because our business depends on you. What you can do is […]

The Government has announced packages of assistance to sectors of industry and commerce that have been most badly affected by Covid-19. Manufacturing and international services A €180m Sustaining Enterprise Fund for firms with 10 or more employees in the manufacturing and international services sectors to be operated by Enterprise Ireland, providing advances of up to €800,000 […]

A variety of other supports for businesses affected by COVID-19 have been made available by the State and State agencies. Pandemic Stabilisation and Recovery Fund A €2 billion Pandemic Stabilisation and Recovery Fund within the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), will make capital available to medium and large companies on commercial terms. You can get […]

The Government has introduced a number of measures to assist businesses reduce their operational costs. Waiving of commercial rates Rates due to local authorities from the most immediately impacted businesses – primarily in the retail, hospitality, leisure and childcare sectors, are waived (previously deferred) for a 3 month period beginning on 27 March for businesses that […]

In light of the Government’s recent financial measures implemented for businesses, we have summarised below some practical steps businesses may take to improve VAT cash flow. Deferral of VAT liability and acceleration of VAT refunds Revenue has indicated that interest will be suspended in relation to the late payment of the January February and March […]