Country pack

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Ireland

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
Set up Ekwo for Ireland

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-3 no date of obligation

No 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
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 lines
  • IE-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.
community no named reviewer
36 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 2026-09-21
en

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-VAT3declaration

Free, 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-3einvoicing

Free, 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 statement

Free, 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

Your books in Ireland, on Ekwo.

Run it on your own project in one command, or leave us an address and we set it up with you.