Ministers Donohoe and McGrath presented Budget 2023 today as the “Cost of Living Budget”. The Budget contains a series of tax measures and additional expenditure to help families and businesses deal with rising costs. The Budget includes one-off measures worth €4.1 billion and budgetary measures for 2023 worth €6.9 billion. TAXATION MEASURES text INCOME […]
BUDGET 2023 AND YOU: TAX & OTHER IMPACTS Read More »
By Dave Hickey As a leader of a growing or mature business your focus needs to be on developing new products or markets, improving efficiency or service and encouraging the team around you to use their expertise to meet today’s, as well as tomorrow’s, challenges. You know you can’t do everything, but it’s difficult to
OUTSOURCING CAN GIVE BUSINESS LEADERS THE TIME TO FOCUS ON WHAT THEY DO BEST Read More »
By Dave Hickey I’ve written before on how I have ‘returned to my roots’ at DHKN after a gap of 38 years. I didn’t realise that a part of me physically remained here until DHKN’s Robert Lohan, Director of Tax Planning, came into my office looking for an old tax reference book. It turns out
MY BACK TO THE FUTURE MOMENT: 1982-2022 Read More »
By Dave Hickey When energy costs are increasing by 80% in a quarter, making small adjustments to your energy consumption may feel like a futile exercise – the proverbial Sisyphean* task. While we have little influence on the price we’re charged for energy we can control how much of it we use. Controlling usage There
SMALL SAVINGS MAY HELP TO KEEP YOUR BUSINESS’ LIGHTS ON Read More »
By Dave Hickey For any business to move successfully from start-up to scale-up it needs to carefully navigate each stage of its growth cycle. So, being aware of which stage of the cycle the business is at, is itself a very important if, for example, if you’re looking to attract funding. The stages of the
GETTING FROM START-UP TO SCALE-UP Read More »
By Dave Hickey Every business should have a business plan. Unfortunately, despite the fact that many of the underlying businesses are viable, the vast majority of plans are hardly worth the paper they’re printed on. Most “bad” business plans share one or more of the problems outlined in previous post here (1-5) or below (6-10):
TOP TEN BUSINESS PLAN MISTAKES (6 – 10) Read More »
By Dave Hickey Every business should have a business plan – because a vision without a plan is just a dream! Unfortunately, despite the fact that many of the underlying businesses are viable, the vast majority of plans are hardly worth the paper they’re printed on. Most “bad” business plans share one or more of
TOP 10 BUSINESS PLAN MISTAKES – (1 TO 5) Read More »
PLAN NOW TO MINIMISE YOUR 2021 & 2022 TAX BILLS By Dave Hickey It’s Race Week in Galway and, as ever, I was told yesterday: “We won’t feel it now until Christmas”. While it’s still only July, there is something to be said to looking ahead to the end of 2022 to see what can
CLEAR YOUR 2022 TAX HURDLES Read More »
In this Edition we look at inflation, interest rates increases and lots of other interesting information. Click here to read more.
By Dave Hickey of DHKN The ECB today announced an increase of 0.5% in its base lending rate, its first hike in rates in 11 years. What will this mean for your business and personal finances as well as your pension plans? What can you do to protect you and your business from the worst
HOW WILL TODAY’S INTEREST RATE INCREASE IMPACT YOU? Read More »
