The Gazette 1993

GAZETTE

First Conferring of Diplomas in Property

Tax

Brian Bohall, Solicitor, EnlSt

Young (left), presentillg the Emst

YOIIllS Property Tax prize to

Stephen Maher, Solicitor (right) who was awarded first place on the course. Also pictured is Pat

O'Connor, then Chairman of the Education Committee.

L-r: Harriet Kinahall, Education Officer, Law Society; Kirby Tarrallt alld Jallet Tarrallt, who was

awarded third place on the course, with their daugilter, Rebecca.

L-r: Pat O'Connor, then Chairman

the Education Committee, presenting" diploma to his

brother, John O'Connor, Solicitor.

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NOVEMBER 1993

At a ceremony recently in the Law

Society, 24 solicitors who successfully

completed the first diploma in

property tax course staged by the

Law Society were awarded with

their diplomas.

The diplomas were presented by the

then Chainnan of the Education

Committee,

Pat 0 'Connor,

who

expressed great satisfaction with the

success of the first course and the

commitment and hard work undergone

by the successful participants. The

course which was staged from February

to June 1993, involved attendance at 60

hours of lectures on topics such as

Capital Gains Tax, Corporation Tax and

Income Tax.

Brian Bohan,

Solicitor, Ernst

Young,

presented a prize of £500 to

Stephen

Maher,

Solicitor, who achieved first

place on the course. This prize will be

awarded annually and will be entitled

"The Ernst

Young Property Tax

Prize". Second and third place on the

course were awarded to

Alison Crawford

and

Janet Tarrant

respectively.

is proposed to run the Diploma course

again in Dublin in the Autumn of 1994.

In the meantime, plans are at an

advanced stage to stage the course in

Cork in the Spring of 1994 and details

of the course will be published in the

December issue of the

Gazette.

The Diploma in Property Tax is not the

only initiative in the teaching of

taxation that has been taken by the

Society recently. A computer assisted

learning programme,

the Basic

Principles of Capital Acquisition Tax,

has been developed and is now being

used by apprentice solicitors attending

the Law School's Professional Courses.

The programme, written by solicitors

Brenda Agnew

and

Cathy O'Brien,

while they were employed by the

Society, is a clear, comprehensive guide

to CAT and deals with the basic legal

principles, computing the tax, agri–

cultural and other reliefs.

was written

specifically for students, but it would

provide a very useful introduction to

CAT for any practitioner.

It is hoped that similar programmes

dealing with other areas of taxation will

be developed in the future.