Setting up a company in Ireland 2026
Irish companies. Structured, formed and looked after.
Whether a trading Limited, a holding or a combination with a UK holding: we develop the right company structure, form it through our office in Dublin and, if you wish, take on the ongoing support.
Anyone who moves to Ireland with capital usually brings a business too, and then a very concrete question arises: what happens to the company? For the three most common answers we have ready-made packages at fixed prices that you can order here. Formation runs through our own office in Dublin, support is in English, and the price is fixed beforehand rather than turning up afterwards on a bill for hours. As long as you live in the UK and run the company from there, its central management and control sits in the UK, and under that test HMRC treats even a company incorporated abroad as UK resident. Where an Irish Limited run by a UK resident is then resident for tax, the UK-Ireland double taxation convention leaves to the two tax authorities, which seek to settle it by mutual agreement.
Overview
The three routes
Irish Limited: formation and ongoing support
€4,420
Formed in Dublin, with registered office, company secretary and ongoing support in English.
Irish holding company
€3,470
The roof over your shareholdings, in an English-speaking EU state with common law.
Irish Limited with a UK holding for non-doms
€7,500
Two companies, one structure: the Irish Limited trades, the UK holding holds.
All three prices cover formation and the first year of support. What comes after is set out on each page.
The director on the ground
The point that decides the tax rate
By law, one director resident in the EEA is enough. For the 12.5 per cent rate, though, the company must actually be run from Ireland, and that means: by someone who lives in Ireland and makes the decisions there.
The EEA director satisfies company law. In Revenue’s practice something else counts: who actually runs the company, and from where. If it is run from abroad, Revenue treats it as managed from outside, and its profits then face the rate of 25 per cent instead of the 12.5 per cent Ireland provides for active business. The background is on the page on the Irish company.
The good news: the person who runs your company from Ireland is you. You move to Ireland with your family, you live there, and you run your company from your desk in Wexford, Waterford or Cork. That answers the question before any authority asks it, and in the only way that holds for years.
This is exactly what Saol Nua Plan is for: we bring your family and your company to Ireland in the same move, on the same timetable and in the same hand. Your residence, your tax registration and your company’s place of management are then in one place, and that is the state a tax audit wants to see.
How a formation works
The process is the same for all three packages and takes around ten days. We first talk about your situation, your timetable and which of the three forms suits your plans; this advice is included in the fee. Then we prepare the formation documents and send them to you by email. You check, sign and return them, and we file them with the Companies Registration Office in Dublin. For registration under its fast-track procedure, the CRO states a target of five working days.
You then receive the certificate of incorporation and all documents prepared in the course of the formation by email. Your company is domiciled at our office in Dublin: that is where its business address is, where its post arrives and where staff work. These are our own premises, on a long-term lease, and so an address that holds up even when Revenue calls in. From then on the support runs: deadlines, annual return, bookkeeping, accounts and tax return, all in English and with one fixed contact.
Business outside Ireland
Some ventures take place entirely outside Ireland: customers in the United States, an online business with no fixed market, work that can be done from anywhere. For such cases the US LLC is the obvious alternative to an Irish company, and it has an address of its own within our network. What an LLC does, how it is taxed and who it suits is explained in full there: zerotax.llc.
Which of the two worlds suits you, we settle in the formation consultation, before anything is registered.