Payroll changes for Irish employers to know about in 2026
Another new year and you need to start preparing for payroll changes, as a lot of the measures in the October budget come into effect now.
Get a compliant, automated solution for every accounting task in one place to make your workload flow. Sage for Accountants can be customised to suit the needs of your practice and your clients. Perfect for busy bookkeepers and accountants who want to grow their practice and help clients thrive quicker.
Tools for your practice:
Add-on features:
When you sign up to Sage for Accountants you’ll have access to free accounting and bookkeeping features that will help you manage tax and stay compliant. These features allow you to calculate and submit tax returns, ensuring a seamless workflow process from client acquisition and record keeping to filing and submitting taxes.
These solutions work together to make managing accounting and taxes easier and error free - both for your practice and for your clients. These can be integrated so you can make a single submission, as data is auto-populated across the different capabilities.
What you'll get with your Sage for Accountants subscription:
Keep your accounts secure and error-free while making year-end preparations easier.
Sage for Accountants is a customisable platform with all the essential tools you need to support your practice and clients. It's easy to improve the efficiency of your practice while staying compliant with automation and processing. From data capture through to tax, and everything in between, Sage for Accountants allows everything to blend in one single seamless workflow.
Accountancy and bookkeeping with Sage Accounting: Support every client regardless of the complexity of their business size. Share real-time reports with clients and view full transaction histories.
Compliance: Use our Final Accounts and tax solutions to manage one set of digital records. You can stay on top of compliance deadlines, minimise data entry, and view the latest client data and reporting.
Payroll: Provide payroll services easily, or let clients serve themselves and pay people in four simple steps.
Automated data entry: Data automation and processing is made simple. Clients can simply capture documents by scan, email, or photograph and Sage will do the rest by auto-population.
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