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Guides to checking companies
Practical guides to working with the Irish registers — from CRO numbers and VAT numbers to the financial statements behind an annual return.
How to check an Irish company: the complete guide
Step by step: what the Companies Registration Office, Revenue and VIES will tell you about an Irish company before you sign — status, officers, filings and VAT registration.
Read the articleCRO number and VAT number: the difference, and how to check both
An Irish company carries more than one number, and they come from different places. What the CRO number is, what Revenue issues, and how to check each of them free.
Read the articleRevenue's list of tax defaulters: what it says, and what it does not
Revenue publishes a quarterly list of tax defaulters. What is on it, how to match an entry to a company, and why being on it does not make a customer liable for the supplier's VAT.
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