Practice Areas - Taxation

JW O’Donovan provides a comprehensive business and personal tax advisory service, offering innovative tax planning to clients. As legal consultants to Cogent Taxation Group Limited, a specialist taxation and wealth management company, we are perfectly positioned to offer our clients a complete range of high quality, independent tax services.

Several of our solicitors hold specialist qualifications in taxation enabling us to provide clients with practical, commercial and cost-effective advice in this broad and complex area. Our team of professionals is dedicated to bringing outstanding taxation and investment opportunities to clients in a confidential manner.

Taxation advice may form just one strand of more general advice sought by our clients in any given transaction. To ensure that best results are achieved, we apply a multidisciplinary approach across the practice to provide quick delivery of our advice to enable its timely implementation.

Our services include the following:
·	Investment management, including tax-efficient fund structuring
·	Innovative and effective estate planning
·	Private equity investments and other wealth management issues
·	Group buyouts, corporate reorganisations and company disposals
·	Structuring and restructuring of holding companies and other business entities
·	Investments in real estate funds and other structured investments relating to commercial and development property transactions
·	Exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights
·	Planning and compliance with VAT, stamp duty, corporation tax, CGT and other forms of commercial taxation
·	Capital tax structuring
·	Charities (creation and administration) and asset transfer
·	Creation of trusts and trust administration
·	Estate and tax planning and inheritance tax
·	Income tax, capital taxation and capital allowance schemes
·	Joint property
·	Tax efficient fund structuring
·	Tax efficient structuring of commercial and development property transactions
·	Investment consortia advice and structuring
·	Business Expansion Schemes: - Company set up - Administration - Taxation advices
·	Corporate tax planning and advisory services for Irish and International companies and for inward investment into Ireland
·	Property taxation, including investment, development and financing
·	Revenue litigation and settlement negotiations
·	Tax efficient dispute resolution