21st July 2010 - Issue: 50

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It is silly season, which means offices across the country have many empty desks and journalists get fewer pester calls from PR people (yep, that's us).

 

Taking the opportunity given by this precious blissful time at the newsdesk, Sunday Business Post media writer Catherine O'Mahony has compiled some very useful pieces of advice for PR agencies approaching the press once we get back to business-as-usual mode in a few weeks.

 

As PR companies work with clients in order to supply newsworthy material to the press, the Practice PR team has decided to share this valuable 'insider' information with all of you.

 

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Story of the Month:
Alphatax complies with UK Revenue Commissioner's e-filing  
 

Tax Computer Systems, the Irish financial software company, today announces that the latest version of Alphatax, its computational tax product, is now iXBRL compliant.  Its compliance comes ahead of formal requirements from the UK Revenue Commissioner's (HMRC) for all financial information in the corporation tax submission process to be iXBRL compliant by April 2011.

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL) is a system for coding and decoding information in the financial world.  It can be considered akin to using barcodes for financial data.  It provides for a standard global framework to support the exchange and storing of financial data.  Already countries around the world have mandated that electronic filing of financial data must be iXBRL compliant.

"We have spent the past two years ensuring our flagship product, Alphatax, is iXBRL complaint," says Daran Gibney, business director in Ireland. 

"In November 2009 we became the first major corporation tax software provider to achieve recognition from HMRC that Alphatax met the requirements of their software recognition process in full"
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