Country pack
communityIreland
Ekwo is free, open source accounting software. Its Ireland pack carries the chart of accounts (Ireland reference chart of accounts, 209 accounts), 7 tax rates in EUR, the periodic return (VAT 3 return, 9 boxes), and the peppol-bis-3 e-invoicing profile. Last checked on 2026-09-21 against 36 texts of law and official sources.
- Country code
IE- Currency
EUR- Pack version
0.2.0- Last checked
- 2026-09-21
What the pack carries
- Charts of accountsWhat a company installs, and who each chart is published for.
default(default) — 209 accounts, for companies
- TaxesHow many the pack carries, at which distinct rates, and which treatments it can express.
- 39 taxes at rates of 0, 4.5, 4.8, 9, 13.5, 21, 23
domestic,domestic_reverse_charge,exempt,export,foreign_services_received,import,intracom_acquisition_goods,intracom_acquisition_services,intracom_goods,intracom_services,not_subject - Periodic declarationThe form the ledger is read into, the cadences it is filed on, and how many boxes it has.
IE-VAT3— 9 boxes, filed month or bimonth or year
- When it is dueA rule of the country, not a date. A pack that cannot state its rule states nothing.
- day 19 of the month after the period
- The file it is deposited asThe brick of packages/formats that writes it, where one exists.
- filed by hand on the administration’s portal
- Electronic invoicingThe profile the country imposes, the day it starts, and the text that imposes it.
peppol-bis-3no date of obligationNo Irish enactment obliges a business to issue an electronic invoice to another business today, so mandatory_from is empty. Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010, s. 66(2) — an electronic invoice counts as issued only where issuer and recipient have agreed to it beforehand. The European Union (Electronic Invoicing in Public Procurement) Regulations 2019, reg. 4, oblige a contracting authority — a sub-central one from 18 April 2020 (reg. 3(6)) — to receive and process an electronic invoice that complies with EN 16931, which is an obligation of the public buyer and not of the supplier. Revenue has announced a phased mandate — VAT-registered large corporates to issue e-invoices and report domestic B2B transactions from November 2028, businesses trading cross-border in the Union from November 2029, the ViDA requirements from July 2030, and every business able to receive structured e-invoices from the first phase — but none of it is enacted yet, so no date is written here. The profile declared is what Irish Peppol participants exchange and is not a legal requirement. The two identifiers are ISO 6523 codes of the Peppol electronic address scheme list: 0088 is the Global Location Number, because that list carries no code for a CRO company number; 9935 is the Ireland VAT number.
- Where the tax balance landsThe accounts a filed declaration settles to, by role.
- payable
2210 - receivable
1150
- payable
- Bank statementsThe formats this country’s banks send, and whether anything here reads them.
camt.053— read
- Payment filesThe formats the country’s banks accept for an outgoing payment.
- no format named
- Financial statementsThe schemes the chart reports on, and the taxonomy their keys are written against.
IE-CA-SMALL-BS— 79 linesIE-CA-SMALL-IS— 16 lines
- Who has read itA pack is reviewed when a named professional has read it against the law, and never before.
communityno named reviewer36 sources cited- Last checked against the lawThe most recent day somebody opened one of the texts the pack was built from.
- 2026-09-21
- Pack versionWhat this pack calls itself, the day it says its transcription is true, and the languages it publishes.
0.2.0— published 2026-09-21en
Free, and operated
Where the open core stops.
The line is operational, not functional. Everything that keeps working on its own is open core; what needs credentials, a certificate or a channel somebody keeps running is the hosted edition.
IE-VAT3declarationFree, for everComputed from the ledger, frozen box by box, filed by hand on the administration’s portal, and what it owes is carried to 2210. The deposit number and the administration’s own words come back into your own database.
OperatedTransmission: the credentials, the certificate and a channel somebody keeps running. The return stays yours.
peppol-bis-3einvoicingFree, for everAn invoice is written and validated as peppol-bis-3 by a brick of packages/formats, and read back the same way.
OperatedSending and receiving over Peppol: a certified access point and a certificate.
camt.053bank statementFree, for everA camt.053 file the bank hands over is read and matched against the ledger.
OperatedFetching the statement without being handed it: a PSD2 aggregator contract.
What it was built from
36 sources — the law this pack was read against
- Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010 (No. 31 of 2010), as revised
Law Reform Commission — Revised Acts · law · read 2026-09-21
- Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010, section 46 — Rates of tax, as enacted
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010, section 125 — Commencement
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- Value-Added Tax Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 639 of 2010)
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · regulation · read 2026-09-21
- Finance (No. 2) Act 2011, section 3 — the second reduced rate of 9 per cent
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- Finance Act 2012, section 87 — the standard rate of 23 per cent
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Act 2020, section 12 — the temporary standard rate of 21 per cent
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- Finance Act 2020, section 39 — the temporary 9 per cent rate for hospitality and tourism
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- Finance Act 2023, section 5 — extension of the temporary 9 per cent rate to 31 August 2023
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022, section 7 — the 9 per cent rate for gas and electricity
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- Finance Act 2025, section 71 — the 9 per cent rate for food and drink for human consumption and hairdressing services from 1 July 2026
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- Finance Act 2025, section 73 — the flat-rate addition of 4.5 per cent from 1 January 2026
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- European Communities (Late Payment in Commercial Transactions) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 580 of 2012)
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · regulation · read 2026-09-21
- European Union (Electronic Invoicing in Public Procurement) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 258 of 2019)
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · regulation · read 2026-09-21
- Companies Act 2014 (No. 38 of 2014), as revised — Part 6 and Schedule 3A
Law Reform Commission — Revised Acts · law · read 2026-09-21
- Companies (Accounting) Act 2017 (No. 9 of 2017), which inserted Schedule 3A into the Companies Act 2014
Office of the Attorney General — electronic Irish Statute Book · law · read 2026-09-21
- FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland, September 2024 edition
Financial Reporting Council · standard · read 2026-09-21
- FRS 105 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable to the Micro-entities Regime, September 2024 edition
Financial Reporting Council · standard · read 2026-09-21
- How do you complete a VAT 3 return?
Revenue Commissioners · form · read 2026-09-21
- When VAT becomes payable — filing dates and taxable periods
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Tax and Duty Manual — VAT Return of Trading Details (Part 9, Chapter 3), last updated February 2026
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Tax and Duty Manual — VAT Postponed Accounting
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Tax and Duty Manual — VAT Treatment of construction services
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- What is reverse charge (self-accounting)?
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Current VAT rates
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Historical VAT rates
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Accounting for VAT on moneys received
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Tax and Duty Manual — Partial recovery of VAT on qualifying passenger motor vehicles
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- VAT Modernisation Timeline
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- VAT Modernisation — Implementation of eInvoicing in Ireland
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Large corporates for Phase One of VAT modernisation
Revenue Commissioners · guidance · read 2026-09-21
- Revenue Online Service (ROS) — where the VAT3 and the Return of Trading Details are filed
Revenue Commissioners · portal · read 2026-09-21
- EN 16931 compliance — the European standard on electronic invoicing under Directive 2014/55/EU
European Commission — Digital Building Blocks · standard · read 2026-09-21
- UNCL5305 — the VAT category code list of EN 16931 (BT-118 and BT-151), as the OpenPEPPOL subset publishes it
OpenPEPPOL — the list itself is published by the European Commission · standard · read 2026-09-21
- VATEX — the VAT exemption reason code list of EN 16931 (BT-121)
OpenPEPPOL — the list itself is published by the European Commission · standard · read 2026-09-21
- Peppol code list of electronic address schemes (ISO 6523 ICD): 0088 Global Location Number, 9935 Ireland VAT number
OpenPEPPOL · standard · read 2026-09-21
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