Identifying, understanding and prioritising the right tax incentives for your organisation globally can be a time-consuming and challenging undertaking—but it’s also one that can generate significant benefits.
We bring world-class professional services to support your company’s investment; innovation; and, environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies by identifying qualifying business tax credits and incentives. Deloitte’s IncentivesHub technology; an innovative; web-based incentive claims management system assists our global network of professionals in identifying emerging opportunities.
Working with Deloitte, you can expect:
Global reach—Deloitte helps you see all the possibilities by identifying potential tax incentive opportunities available to your company worldwide.
Technology at the centre—Deloitte professionals leverage technology for operational efficiency and to gain a clear vision of relevant global investment opportunities.
Industry experience—Deloitte practitioners globally know and understand your industry, your business language and your technology.
A Life cycle view—Each tax incentive is considered in the context of the investment and innovation life cycle to realise the full financial and commercial benefit.
Total perspectives—Deloitte’s broad range of specialised services is available to help you consider the impact of incentives on your wider tax, financial and commercial activities so you can further enhance and accelerate potential business opportunities globally.
Your engagement powered by IncentivesHub:
A flexible platform configured by your dedicated engagement team to fit your engagement
A practical way for Deloitte to gather and analyse tax credit and incentives data and compute eligible spend for incentives programmes
Data visualisations and real-time dashboards/heatmaps to support a data-driven approach to engagement management
Incentives tracking to identify, plan, execute and report across any statutory and discretionary credit and incentive portfolio—allows tracking of key milestones, tasks and credits and incentives obligations required to effectively assess, implement and comply and monetise sustainability incentives
A global incentive library of 5,000+ programmes to support a client’s pursuit of incentives across a company’s domestic and global footprint
An ability for Deloitte to collaborate with all stakeholders—such as finance, operations, engineering, tax, third-party collaborators, etc.—through the system
Tax credits and incentive opportunities:
Business investments
Business activity examples
Research & development
Product and process development or enhancement
Software development
Employment activities
Jobs creation or retention
Employee training
Real estate & investment
Business expansion or relocation
Equipment expenditures
Semiconductor investments
Infrastructure improvements
Sustainability initiatives
Green manufacturing
Energy property expenditures (wind, solar, inverters, battery storage, critical minerals)
David Shanahan is a tax partner and Head of Business Tax at Deloitte Ireland and has worked at Deloitte for over 20 years. He advises clients across a range of industries and specialises in working with Irish HQ businesses & private equity firms on all aspects of tax including M&A, foreign expansion and group reorganisations. David previously spent 2 years leading Deloitte’s Irish Tax Desk in New York.
David is a Director within Deloitte’s Gi3 (Global Investment & Innovation Incentives) practice, and leads a team of technical and financial advisors who guide and assist companies with all aspects of their innovation funding. David is from a research background, and holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin, in both Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering (BAI), and Mathematics (BA). Since 2008, he has worked as a specialist advisor in the areas of R&D Tax Credits, Grants and incentives, helping companies identify and optimise the vast array of incentive available. David has a particular focus on Revenue Audits, and companies active in the medical device, pharmaceutical, engineering and manufacturing space. David is a member of Institute of Engineers Ireland, and actively liaises with Revenue as part of the ITI’s delegation on Revenue’s R&D tax credit discussion group.
