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Time to Abolish the Close Company Surcharge for Professional Service Companies

Measures by the Revenue Commissioners to relax the imposition of close company surcharges and a recent Tax Appeals Commission determination (108TACD2020) concerning surcharges on undistributed income of an accountancy firm have brought into sharp focus the close company surcharge. 

This article summarises the TAC decision and poses the question: Is it time, from a policy perspective, to abolish the close company surcharge for professional service companies?

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Time to abolish the close company surcharge for professional service companies