International Trade – Case studies
Using Ireland for International Trade
The concept of an Irish Agency Company is that it acts on behalf of a Principal who may be located in an offshore jurisdiction. The Principal engages the Irish Company to carry out specific trading activities that it would ordinarily not be able to carry out itself, such as the provision of goods or services within the European Union or possibly due to the inhibitive high costs of setting up their own physical operation with the European Union.
The Principal will engage the Irish Company through a formal Agency Agreement that clearly defines the role of the Irish Company within the trading structure. Also defined within the Agreement are the fees, or percentages of profit, that the Irish Company will collect for the execution of its role along with any additional provisions that may be agreed.
If trading occurs within the European Union, the Irish Company will be obliged to register for VAT; the rate presently stands at 23%. The inherent benefit of VAT registration when trading within the EU means that the Irish Company, reflecting its VAT number on its issued invoices and indicating the buyers’ VAT/IVA number on the same, results in no VAT being levied on the value of the goods as the buyer will account for the VAT in their own country of registration.
Irish nominee structure – example of case study
The Italian company will invoice the Irish Company for the market value of the handbags, quoting their respective VAT number and reflecting the Irish Company’s VAT number on their invoice, thus zero-rating the supply and VAT charge.
The Irish Company in turn will request that the goods are delivered to a Freeport where they will take the title of the goods and onward ship, without importation into Ireland, the handbags to Spain. At this time, the Irish Company will issue an invoice to the Spanish retail group, again reflecting the Irish Company’s VAT number and that of the Spanish Company, in order to zero rates the supply for VAT purposes. The handbags are thus delivered with all documentation reflecting the Irish Company and not the original supplier, nor the offshore principal.
On receipt of the funds, the Irish Company will in turn settle the invoice received from the Italian Company. The remaining funds, less the agreed fee for the Nominee Company, will be remitted to account specified and provided by the offshore principal.
The Irish Company will become taxable in Ireland just for the residual generated profit.
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