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
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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.
It
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.
It
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.
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