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CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR PUBLIC COUNTER OPENING HOURS
The fast track restoration facility will be available as normal from 10.30am and 12 noon on the 27th, 30th and 31st December. Because of the disruption caused to services over the holiday period, annual returns, where the deadline for filing falls between 24th December 2013 and 1st January 2014, will be treated as received on time if filed by close of business on Thursday 2nd January 2014.
The Registrar and Staff of the CRO wish all our clients a Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year.
NEW FOR 2014
The Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 will be enacted before the end of 2013. One of the legal provisions in this Bill is to allow a facility to file your Annual Return and Financial Statements fully electronically. It is expected that this provision will be commenced in mid-January 2014. We hope this initiative will be extremely beneficial to practitioners.
Just a simple one-page signature page which will include the overall certification for the financial statements will need to be submitted to the CRO.
How To File B1 and Financial Statements Fully Electronically:
Please note that the Electronic Filing Agents cannot electronically sign the overall certification for Financial Statements.
Uploading PDF accounts is as simple to use as attaching a document to an email. The customer will have the choice of converting an existing electronic version of their accounts to pdf or scanning a hard copy version of the accounts and saving them as a pdf.
For more information go to http://www.cro.ie/ena/submitting-pdf-accounts.aspx
CHRISTMAS 2013 DEADLINES - NEW COMPANIES
FOR INCORPORATIONS, CHANGE OF NAME RE-REGISTRATIONS AND COMPANY NAME RESERVATIONS
The CRO cannot guarantee that submissions received after the dates set out below will be processed before the Christmas break.
RECEIVERSHIPS/FORM COMPLETION
A receiver is not an officer of a company but instead is appointed over the relevant property of the company and accordingly has no authority to sign statutory filings with CRO on behalf of a company - for instance a B2 to change the registered office of the company.
Statutory filings on behalf of companies are required to be signed by a director or secretary of the company or where the company is in liquidation, by the liquidator of the company. The only exception to this is NAMA-appointed receivers ('statutory receivers') - under the NAMA legislation, statutory receivers are given power to notify CRO of a change in the registered office of any company over whose property he/she has been appointed as statutory receiver.
A B2 signed by a statutory receiver notifying a change in the registered office of the company over whose property he/she has been appointed receiver is registrable by CRO on that basis.
ANNUAL RETURNS FILED IN 2013 FOR 2014
The Companies Acts state that a company must file an annual return at least once in each calendar year. A company with a 2014 ARD date must file an annual return with an effective date in 2014 in order to meet this requirement and move their next ARD on to 2015. A company cannot file a 2014 annual return with an effective date in 2013.