Course Details

Pension structures bring many benefits to Tax Efficiency, Investing, Retirement planning, Personal Wealth and Inheritance. They are a key piece of Tax planning infrastructure. Significant changes to regulatory and tax treatment of pensions have required accountants to adapt and tailor advice to a different pension landscape. 


This course will assist accountants with the up-to-date position in pension planning, what activity is visible in the market and what current trends are manifesting.


In this course Aengus Burns covers the following topics:

  • End of the SSAP
  • Self-Administered Pension Structures
  • Property and Pensions
  • Pension Contributions and Funding
  • Pension Planning
  • Non-standard PRSA’s

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Grant Thornton

Aengus Burns

Aengus joined Grant Thornton in 2002 and is a partner in the Financial Services Advisory team based in Galway and Dublin. He has extensive Restructuring, Insolvency and Corporate Finance experience. He heads up the Corporate Simplification team at Grant Thornton and is responsible for Members’ Voluntary Liquidations of Special Purpose Vehicles and Funds in particular. In addition, Aengus leads the Grant Thornton Pensioneer Trustee Services team which manages Self -Administered Pension Schemes on behalf of clients. His Financial Services Advisory experience includes: • managing solvent winding down operations of financial services companies; • creating restructuring strategies for manufacturing and retail companies; • acting as receiver over property assets and corporate entities; • acting as examiner and liquidator to various companies; • corporate finance advisory and transaction services; and • pensioneer trustee services to private clients.