Companies have been granted a two-week extension to the deadline for filing an annual return after the Companies Registration Office (CRO) admitted many were experiencing difficulties with its systems. Not registered“The process is that you file the return and get a confirmation of that. We have documents submitted back in January which are still not registered on the CRO system. They can’t afford to pay their accountants to prepare accounts and yet they are still obliged to file an annual return which requires the preparation of these accounts. “I welcome the decision by the registrar to extend the filing deadline for annual returns, in recognition of the difficulties being experienced by some businesses and their professional advisers in relation to filing obligations,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times May 28, 2021 13:45 UTC