2017 Ezine Newsletter

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Mandatory efiling of certain submissions will be introduced by the CRO from 1st June 2017 

SI 458 of 2016 - Companies Act 2014 (Section 897) Order 2016 has been signed into law by the Minister of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. The SI comes into effect on 1st June 2017. Mandatory electronic filing will apply to the following submissions from this date:

B1 Form - Annual Return (including financial statements and electronic payment)
B2 Form - Change of registered office
B10 Form - Change of director and/or secretary, or in their particulars
B73 Form - Nomination of a new annual return date

From 1 June 2017, the sole means of filing a B1 and financial accounts and paying for an annual return will be in electronic form. However, the signature page must still be printed off, signed and submitted manually to the CRO (unless digitally signed using ROS).

These changes will directly affect the company of which you are a director. As every company is obliged to file a B1 every year, it is imperative that every company familiarises themselves with the online process ahead of their ARD.

Link to CORE (Companies Online Registration Environment) https://core.cro.ie/

CRO are working on an information campaign to notify companies of the new efiling requirements.
https://www.cro.ie/2017-Changes/Electronic-Filing-Mandatory

Beneficial Ownership Register 

Article 30 of the 4th EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive requires all EU Member States to put into national law provisions around beneficial ownership information for companies and legal entities.

There are two stages to this process:

1) As of 15 November 2016 Companies and legal entities must hold information on their beneficial owner in their own companies beneficial ownership register
2) Companies and legal entities will be required to file this information with the central beneficial ownership register. The central register is in the process of being established and further information on the filing requirement will be provided in due course.

https://www.cro.ie/2017-Changes/Beneficial-Ownership

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