Why Having a Competent Company Secretarial Partner is Essential for Your Business

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Van-Geraghty
Company Secretarial Services | Corporate Governance | Compliance Tel: +353 (0) 505 34101 Email: vgeraghty@komsec.ie  

Running a company in Ireland comes with many responsibilities and compliance with Irish company law is one of the most critical. Company secretarial work, often seen as routine, is vital for protecting your company, directors and future growth by ensuring corporate governance obligations are met.

The latest annual review of the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) outlined that 10 directors in Ireland were disqualified specifically for allowing their companies to be struck off for failure to file the required returns with the Companies Registration Office.

Partnering with an experienced secretarial firm, like KomSec, helps businesses stay compliant with the Companies Acts and other regulations. A professional team ensures all filings are made on time in the Companies Registration Office and that statutory registers and records are accurate. This means companies can avoid penalties, loss of audit exemptions or (in a worse case scenario) director prosecutions by the CEA.

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Compliance Calendar for Charities to help with Annual Reporting in 2026

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Van-Geraghty
Company Secretarial Services | Corporate Governance | Compliance Tel: +353 (0) 505 34101 Email: vgeraghty@komsec.ie  

Compliance Calendar for Charities to help with Annual Reporting in 2026

 

Charities have an obligation to complete and file an online annual report with the Charities Regulator within 10 months of their financial year-end. For the majority of charities, their year-end is 31 December which means their annual report is due on or before the 31 October.

January

Time to start preparing your charity’s financial accounts for 2025. If you are using the services of a third party, such as an accountant, to prepare these accounts reach out to them now. Check what information they need and when.

Agree on a date for the board meeting when the accounts will be approved by the charity trustees. The accounts will need to be ready ahead of the meeting so they can be circulated to the trustees to give them the opportunity to review them.

Make sure to notify whoever is preparing your accounts (especially if you are using the services of a third party) of the date the accounts need to be ready for circulation and inform them. You might want to remind them that it is an offence for a charity to file its annual report late to the Charities Regulator, so it’s important to meet the deadline.

April

Draft financial accounts for 2025 are ready and circulated to all trustees of the charity.

May

Draft financial accounts are reviewed at the board meeting and approved by the charity trustees. If charity trustees have questions on the accounts that need to be clarified or are seeking further details, approval of the accounts can be deferred to the next meeting so the necessary information can be obtained and shared with charity trustees.

June

Financial accounts for 2025 are approved by the board. Begin to draft the annual report on finances and activities for the Charities Regulator.

August /September

Ahead of September board meeting, circulate the draft annual report to the charity trustees for their review.

September

Charity trustees review and approve the annual report to be submitted to the Charities Regulator. The report is now ready to be submitted. However, if further discussion is required, the decision to approve can be deferred to the October board meeting.

October

The report is submitted to the Charities Regulator.

 

Remember that if a Charity does not file its annual report on time it could ultimately be removed from the Charities Register and prosecuted in the district court.

 

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2026 Key Dates – important and not so important ones!

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Kathryn-Maybury
A post by Kathryn Maybury | Managing Director | KOMSEC Limited | Company Secretarial Services | Corporate Governance | Compliance | Tel: +353 (0) 1 2107595 Email: kmaybury@komsec.ie  

 

2026 KEY DATES – important and not so important ones!

January 2026

01.01.2026                                                New Year’s Day – last chance to relax before going back to work

05.01.2026                                                Congrats! You made it back to work

08.01.2026                                                Earth Rotation Day – Keep spinning!

28.01.2026                                                Global International Data Protection – yes, more GDPR!

January                                                      Make sure you have set up dates for all quarterly board meetings during 2026

 

February 2026

05.02.2026                                               Six Nations Rugby France v Ireland

11.02.2026                                                International Women & Girls in Science

 

March 2026

17.03.2026                                               St. Patricks Day – everyone is happy to be seen in public with green face paint!

20.03.2026                                               Local Property Tax deadline – if paying full amount in one go

30.03.2026                                               Mother’s Day – do not give her flowers bought at the petrol station on the way home!

March                                                       Quarterly Board Meeting time

 

April 2026

05.04.2026                                                Easter Day

06.04.2026                                                No groaning – you knew what you were doing when you ate all those chocolate Easter eggs!

April                                                           Audit – make sure someone is actively managing the Audit which includes telling the Auditors!

 

May 2026

04.05.2026                                                Bank Holiday – May Day

09.05.2026                                                Europe Day

 

June 2026

03.06.2026                                                Bank Holiday

21.06.2026                                                Father’s Day – see Mother’s Day advice above!

23.06.2026                                                Lewis Capaldi in Marlay Park

26.06.2026                                                The Cure in Marlay Park (if Lewis Capaldi doesn’t do it for you!)

 

July 2026

01.07.2026                                                Ireland take over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union

19.07.2026                                                World Cup Final – Ireland playing – we can dream!

 

August 2026

03.08.2026                                               Bank Holiday

26.08.2026                                               International Dog Day   – paws for thought!

 

September 2026

18.09.2026                                               Culture Night- visit Cork City Hall or the Mansion House in Dublin

30.09.2026                                               Annual Return Date for the bulk of companies – panic or call us!

September                                               Quarterly Board Meeting time

 

October 2026

01.10.2026                                             Breast Cancer Awareness month

28.10.2026                                             Annual Return – deadline for electronic filing. This is it, now or never…… FILE!

31.10.2026                                             Spooky time!

 

November 2026

08.11.2025                                              International Tongue Twister Day – she sells sea shells on the seashore…

13.11.2026                                              Friday the 13th …….. you have been warned!

November                                               Charity Trustee’s Week

 

December 2026

24.12.2026                                             Santa Claus is coming – I hope you are on the good list!

25.12.2026                                             Make sure the oven is on, and the turkey is in!

December                                              Quarterly Board Meeting time

 

 

01.01.2027                                             Here we go again!

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