Myself and my business partner operate a business where the majority (90%) of our income is derived from selling advertising in an online capacity.
What is the concensus that my company is an advertising agency? ie that the company falls outside the scope of the Professional Service Company Surcharge, and is not liable to the 15 per cent charge on 50 percent of the undistributed trading income.
I've read the relevant materials;
Revenue [pdf]
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There is a definition of an Advertising service in this page
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/leaflets/advertising-services.html
The ruling which brought about the opinion that an advertising agency was not 'carrying out a profession'
http://www.charteredaccountants.ie/taxsource/1997/en/act/pub/0039/cl/sec0441-1-cl.html
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What is the concensus that my company is an advertising agency? ie that the company falls outside the scope of the Professional Service Company Surcharge, and is not liable to the 15 per cent charge on 50 percent of the undistributed trading income.
I've read the relevant materials;
Revenue [pdf]
[broken link removed]
There is a definition of an Advertising service in this page
http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/leaflets/advertising-services.html
The ruling which brought about the opinion that an advertising agency was not 'carrying out a profession'
http://www.charteredaccountants.ie/taxsource/1997/en/act/pub/0039/cl/sec0441-1-cl.html
[broken link removed]