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Start-Up Relief for Entrepreneurs (SURE)

Status

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Amount
€140,000

Refund of PAYE income tax paid over the previous six years, invested into your own new company. Refund can be up to around EUR 140,000 depending on prior tax paid (up to EUR 100,000 per year invested).

Funder

Revenue Commissioners

public · national

Deadline: Open all year

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Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

For employees, unemployed or recently redundant people starting their own business: must establish a new company with a new qualifying trade, have mainly PAYE income in the previous four years, take up full-time employment in the company as director or employee, invest cash for new shares and hold them at least four years. Claims are made to Revenue's EII branch.

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Source. https://www.revenue.ie/en/personal-tax-credits-reliefs-and-exemptions/investment/relief-corporate/start-up-relief-for-entrepreneurs.aspx

"SURE is a tax relief that provides a refund of Income Tax that you paid in previous years."

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: www.revenue.ie

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