On 30 November 2020, the Irish Revenue published an eBrief 216/20 on a new Tax and Duty Manual Part 38-03-21, which provides details of the release of CbC User Guide Version 2.0 and CbC XML Schema Version 2.0, which will be in use from 1 February 2021.

To facilitate the migration to the new schema version, the Revenue electronic CbC Reporting filing system in ROS will be unavailable from midnight on 15 January 2021 until 31 January 2021. The CbC Reporting filing system will re-open on 1 February 2021. Up to 15 January 2021 all CbC Reports, including correction reports, should be prepared and filed using CbC XML Schema Version 1.0.