Services offered by AITI Chartered Tax Advisers (CTA)
When should I seek professional tax advice?
If the answer to any of the following questions is ‘yes’, then you should consider seeking professional tax advice:
- Do you think you may be owed a refund of tax but don't know how to calculate it?
- Do you think you may have underpaid your tax but you are unsure?
- Are you concerned that you may have failed to meet any of your obligations to pay tax or to file a tax return?
- Are you about to start your own business?
- Do you run or manage a business and have yet to take professional tax advice?
- Do you find your annual tax return has become too complex and too time consuming for you to complete on your own?
- Have you received a large gift or inheritance?
- Have you received correspondence from the Revenue Commissioners and you don’t know how to deal with it?
- Are you about to sell a valuable asset?
- Do you have a mixed portfolio of income and/or assets but have yet to take professional tax advice?
- Do you feel you should set up some form of structured funding to look after matters such as educating your children, providing for your pension or donating to charity?
- Are you involved in a club, charity or society that generates significant financial transactions but has yet to avail of professional tax advice?
Don’t put your head in the sand - get advice from the experts
If any of the above questions are relevant to your circumstances then you should consider taking tax advice. If you would like more information about tax in general click here to access our information guides.
But these guides may only take you so far and it may be time to seek professional advice from the experts to address the tax issues which apply in your particular circumstances. As you are no doubt aware, the cost of underpaying your tax or not filing tax returns that are due can be very painful so it is important that you don’t dodge the issue but seek advice when it is needed. However, make sure you take advice from qualified experts and that you obtain value for money. Click here to see the list of qualified AITI Chartered Tax Advisers (CTA) in your area and the kind of questions you should ask before retaining the help of an AITI Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA). If you would like any further information about using AITI Chartered Tax Advisers (CTA) please contact Samantha Feely-Lenehan at our Institute; sfeely@taxinstitute.ie Ph: 01 6631707
