VAT3 returns are bi-monthly, technically demanding and deadline-driven — Revenue surcharges for late or incorrect submissions land on your clients and damage your practice reputation. Exuberant Global's dedicated offshore VAT specialists take on the full production process, delivering accurate, reconciliation-backed VAT3 packs to your Galway practice ahead of every Revenue deadline.
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For a Galway practice with 30 or more VAT-registered clients, the bi-monthly VAT3 cycle means 180 or more individual return deadlines per year — each requiring reconciliation of bookkeeping records, correct VAT rate application, VIES or Intrastat reporting where applicable, and timely ROS filing. Multiplied across your entire client base, VAT preparation is one of the heaviest recurring compliance burdens any practice carries.
Exuberant Global removes that burden entirely from your production workflow. Your dedicated VAT specialist works through each client's return as a structured, methodical process throughout the bi-monthly period — not in a rushed sprint before the deadline. Returns arrive at your practice complete, with reconciliation workings and supporting notes, ready for review and approval. Your role becomes one of oversight and client advisory, not preparation and data entry.
"Galway practices that outsource VAT preparation to us maintain a zero Revenue surcharge record across their entire VAT client base — and their senior accountants report that VAT review now takes a fraction of the time it used to, because the underlying work arrives clean."
Galway's economy generates VAT complexity that goes beyond the basics. The medical device and pharmaceutical sectors involve significant imported components and exported finished goods, creating intra-EU and third-country VAT obligations. The tourism and hospitality sector requires careful application of the 9% reduced rate and management of employee benefit-in-kind VAT treatment. Construction businesses must navigate reverse charge mechanisms for subcontractor payments. Marine and fisheries businesses carry specific agricultural and commercial VAT rate considerations.
Our VAT specialists are trained in sector-specific VAT treatment across all these areas. They identify and apply the correct treatment at the preparation stage, not at the review stage — which means your partners are reviewing a return that is substantively correct, not one that requires significant correction before it can be filed.
We apply the full range of Irish VAT rates accurately across diverse Galway client bases: the standard 23% rate, the 13.5% reduced rate for construction services, fuel, and certain professional services, the 9% rate for tourism and hospitality, the 4.8% agricultural rate, and zero-rated and exempt categories. Rate selection is verified from the underlying transactions, not assumed from client descriptions — which is where many preparation errors originate.
Galway hosts significant internationally trading businesses, many of whom have EU VAT obligations beyond the domestic VAT3. We handle VIES returns for clients making intra-EU B2B supplies, Intrastat declarations for businesses crossing the goods movement threshold, OSS returns for e-commerce clients selling direct to EU consumers, and IOSS preparation for businesses importing goods to EU buyers. These cross-border obligations are handled as part of our standard VAT service — not escalated as special projects that require additional engagement.
At the opening of each bi-monthly VAT period, your dedicated VAT specialist reviews any client changes — new VAT registrations, changes to business activity, unusual purchase or sale transactions from the prior period. They then work through each client's bookkeeping records methodically: reconciling input and output VAT, applying the correct rate to each transaction type, calculating any VIES, Intrastat or partial exemption figures required, and building the complete VAT3 pack with full reconciliation workings. The completed pack arrives at your practice with sufficient lead time for review and any necessary amendments well before the Revenue deadline.
VAT preparation is a skilled but high-volume task. It requires solid knowledge of Irish VAT legislation and meticulous attention to detail — but it does not require your most senior accountants to perform. In many Galway practices, VAT returns absorb hours from qualified staff who could be generating greater value elsewhere. With Exuberant Global, your VAT production is handled at €9 per hour after your free trial — typically 60% less than the cost of allocating qualified staff time — with a quality level that reduces review time rather than adding to it.
The questions Galway accounting practices most commonly ask before outsourcing VAT3 preparation to Exuberant Global.
Contact Our TeamYes. All our VAT specialists are trained in Irish VAT legislation, Revenue Commissioners requirements, and ROS filing procedures. We correctly apply all Irish VAT rates — 23%, 13.5%, 9%, 4.8%, zero-rated and exempt — and prepare returns in the format required for your practice to review and file via ROS.
Yes. We prepare VIES returns for clients making intra-EU B2B supplies, and Intrastat supplementary declarations for businesses above the relevant goods movement thresholds. We also prepare OSS and IOSS returns for Galway e-commerce businesses selling directly to EU consumers.
We apply reverse charge VAT correctly for construction subcontractor payments under Irish rules, for digital services received from non-Irish EU suppliers, and for other intra-EU service purchases where the recipient accounts for VAT. These are treated as standard processing tasks, not exceptions flagged for your team to resolve.
Your practice files every return via ROS. We prepare the complete return and reconciliation workings and deliver them for your review and approval. Filing only takes place after you sign off. Your Revenue agent relationship with your Galway clients remains entirely yours throughout.
Yes. We calculate partial exemption recovery percentages for mixed-supply Galway businesses, maintain Capital Goods Scheme records and prepare annual CGS adjustment calculations, and handle VAT on property transactions including the joint option to tax where it applies. These complex areas are covered as part of our standard VAT service.
From €9 per hour after your free trial — representing a saving of around 60% versus the cost of allocating in-house staff time to VAT preparation in Galway, with flexible hours that scale with your VAT client base across the year.